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VOL. VI. 1908—1910.
DEVIZES:
GEORGE SIMPSON, GAZETTE OFFICE.
LONDON: PIIILLIMOKE AND CO, 124, CHANCERY LANE, V
1911. y
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
PAGE.
Encaustic Tiles at Tinhead ...
The Stokes Cup, Merton College, Oxford
Portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh, formerly at Downton
Portrait of Sir Thomas Phillipps
Autograph of ditto
Brass of John Stf)kys (1498), and his wife Alys, in Secnd Church
Leaflet recording the sudden death of Ruth Pierce, of Potterne,
in Devizes Market, 1753
Inscription, recording the same, from Devizes Market Cross
Frances, Duchess of Suffolk, and her second husband Adrian
Stokes, from an engraving by Vertue, 1748
Autograph of the late Colonel Chester
Portrait of Laurence Hyde, of Heale (1593-1643)
Arms of Hyde (on tabular pedigree) ...
Coin of Stephen, apparently minted at Devizes
Portrait of Amphillis, wife of Laurence Hyde, of Heale
Portrait of Alexander Hyde. Bishop of Salisbury, 1665-1667
Monument of Sir Laurence Washington (1643), in Garsdon
«\ Church
1 Shield ot Arms from ditto
Representation of the "Doom" on wooden tympanum of Rood
fx Screen, in Dauntsey Church
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(tSJtltsijirc jBtotts anti (Queries,
MARCH, 190S.
ENCAUSTIC TILES AT TINHEAD.
jj^|"|7^ HE four patterns of encaustic tiles here reproduced
are found in one of the upper rooms at Becket's
Farm, Tinhead. They are laid in front of the lire-
place, forming a raised hearth. How long they
have occupied this position is uncertain ; they are
now much worn and broken, and it is with difficulty that some
minor 'details of the original design have been recovered. In
one case this would have been impossible had not a more
perfect specimen of the same tile been obtained from a
different source.
They are interesting from having most probably belonged
either to the church or some other of the monastic buildings
at Edington. The designs, also, so far as known to the writer,
are somewhat uncommon. The two heraldic ones are:—
No. 1. A shield between two nondescript animals (evi-
dently not intended as supporters) bearing On a chiej two
mullets — apparently the arms of the ancient family of St.
John— and we find the name of John St. John as Rector of
Edington Monastery, a.d. 1494-1515.
No. 2. On an eagle with two heads displayed, a shield
charged with a lion rampant sinister — a coat apparently not
given in Papworth, but which it ought not to be difficult to
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identif}' — and ma}- perhaps be looked for either as another
Rector, or a benefactor to Edington monaster}-. Of this tile,
fragments onl)T are found at Tin head, but a perfect specimen,
said to have come from Ivy Mill, also in Edington parish, is
in possession of Mr. H. Mcdlicott, of Potterne, to whom the
writer is indebted for permission to make a tracing, thus
enabling him to complete the design.
No. 3.
Nos. 3 and 4, although non-heraldic, are patterns of
somewhat uncommon occurrence.
The four tiles are about 6 } inches square, and of uniform
size.
The fine old room at Becket's Farm, in which they are
preserved, is fitted with oak panelling, apparently of the
time of James I. Two panels occupy the space above the
Encaustic Tiles at Tinhcad. 3
fireplace, the subjects between them, also carved in oak, being
1, Justice — with sword and scales ; 2, Vanity — a female gazing
in a mirror; 3, Music — another figure with a musical instru-
ment. In one of the panels is a shield bearing a clenched hand
in armour; the corresponding shield in the other panel is
missing.
To the late Mr. Cullimore, the tenant of Becket's Farm,
No. 4.
the writer is indebted for the facilities given him in making
tracings of these tiles. Any further information on the sub-
ject—the locality of their manufacture, or other known
specimens belonging to the same series— would be most
acceptable.
Poulshot. Edward Kite.
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Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
STOKES.
(Continued from Vol. i>, p. 561.)
[P.C.C. 9 Hene.]
Will of Edward Stokes, of Titherton, 1667.
[Abridged.] May 30, 1667. I, Edward Stokes, of Titherton Lucas,
esquire, desirous to settle in order my estate which God hath bestowed
upon mee that I may not in my extreames be incumbred and troubled
with worldly affaires, do hist revoke, etc., haveing committed my soule
to the mercy of God Allmighty, etc., I committ my body to the earth to
be buried in a silent and decent manner without pagan pompeor popish
ceremony, in a place I shall appoint in my lifetime if I happen to dye
att or near Tytherton Lucas. As for my worldly estate, etc. ; to my
most dear and tender wife Elizabeth Stokes all the goods, household
stuff, and implements of household brought with her unto my house,
and also my two chests of drawers, best bed and furniture thereto belong-
ing, and her rings and jewels, furniture and implements remaining in
her closets in my now dwelling house, and a moiety of my "clift" wood
and faggots about my house and coal to her own use, and the use of all
my other household stuff and furniture in that part of my dwelling
house, called the new building, during her life; after her death, to
Elizabetli Stokes my daughter, with my plate; to my son Christopher
Stokes, £100, to be paid in a year after my decease ; all my debts to be
paid with all convenient speed., a schedule whereof as also of debts
due to me I intend to annex hereunto or otherwise to leave it in my
almanacke or book ot accounts; each of my brothers and sisters \os.
apiece; my niece Susanna Garrard, ^50, to be paid within a year after
my decease; my uncle John Chcke, gent., \os. ; my servant Roger
Webb and the two maidservants that shall be with me at my decease,
20s. each; also to all my constant workmen at the time of my decease,
that is to say, thresherc, smithe, taylor, wheelwright, carpenter, thatcher
and mason, 6s. Si/, apiece; to my long painefull and trusty servants
John Robins, alias Duke, and Robert Angel 1, ,£5 each, and do hereby
release all rents due from said John Robins for his house and garden
grounds; the children of my brother Thomas Garrard, gent., which he
had by my sister (excepting the said Susanna), $s. each ; the bailiff and
burgesses of the borough of Chippenham and their successors, £\2t to
remain in the town stock to be let forth by them upon bonds and
sufficient securities, that is to say, to 6 poor freemen of the borough
not exceeding the sum of 40.V. apiece, the said bonds to be renewed
yearly on securities as the money remaining in the town stock is usually
let forth. Whereas, I have delivered to John Jacob, ol Norton, co.
Wilts, gent.; Xevill Maskelyne, of Purton, co. Wilts, gent.; Henry
Stokes.
Francklyne, of Sherston Magna; and to Thomas Neate, of Chippenham,
co. Wilts, gent., the sum of ,£1,000 for the use of my daughter Elizabeth
Stokes, payable to her at the age of 16 years, now 1 bequeath the said
sum to her with the increase thereof, only reserving the interest for my
life time. If she happen to die before her age of 16 years, then ^"500 to
my son Christopher Stokes, and ,£500 to my wife Elizabeth Stokes, with
the interest to be raised 6 months after my daughter's decease ; my
grandchild Mary Stokes £\o to buy her a piece of plate; the poor of
Titherlon Lucas £6, to be distributed amongst those whom I shall
nominate ; my son Abjohn Stokes, residuary legatee and executor, whom.
I commit to the guidance and protection of Almighty God under which
I desire and require him to perform the same; the said John Jacob.
Nevill Maskelyne, Henry Franckline and Thomas Neate, overseers, to
whom in token of my love I give 205-. apiece.
Witnesses, John Cheke, John Stokes, Edward Crooke, Susanna
Garrard, Robert Angell.
[Proved at Exeter Hall, in the Strand, co. Middlesex, 8 January
1667/8.]
[Archdeacon's Court, Sarum.]
Will of Alice Stokes, of Studley, 1675.
Alice Stokes, of Suidley, in the parish of Trowbridge, widow,
revoking all former wills, 20 Oct. 1675; to her eldest son James Stokes,
the standing bedstead in the best chamber, the best table-board in the
hall and the "winscot chayre"; to her son Peter Stokes, one fringed
tablecloth; to her son-in-law John Horlocke, $s.] to her grandson John
Horlocke, 40^.; to her grandchild Elizabeth Stokes, all her wearing
apparel, all which legacies she appoints to be paid within a year after
her decease; her son John Stokes, sole executor. Witnesses, Richard
Hayler and Margaret Knight.
[Proved at Market Laving ton 13 April 1676. With an Inventory of
her goods taken 5 November 1675, being ordinary furniture and house-
hold utensils and including "one silver salt, 1 dozen of silver spoons, 6
old bookes", the whole amounting to ^40 Ss. G/L]
[Archdeacon's Court, Sarum.]
John Stokes, of Bishopsi-row, 16S3.
February 4, a.D. 16S3. John Stokes, of BishopstroWi yeoman, his
body to be buried in the churchyard of Bishopstrow in tin- same place
where his father was buried; his grandchild Thomas Debnam, ZOS. ; his
grandchild Jane Debnam, qos. ; and his grandchild Elizabeth Hopton, 20.V.
— to be paid them 6 years after his decease; his grandchildren Mary
Debnam, Joane Debnam, Alice Debnam, Anne Debnam, John Debnam,
Margaret Debnam, John Hopton, and Daniel Hopton, iov. each on their
ages of 21, the legacy of any of them dying to be divided among the
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survivors; his daughter Alice Debnam, lay.; his daughter MaryHoptou,
^30; his wife Kimbry Stokes an annuity or rent charge of £\6, out of
his messuage and lands in Bishopstrovv, payable half-yearly; also to her
during her life the hall, buttery, and two lower chambers in the mes-
suage he now lives in in Bishopstrovv, and all his household goods in
said messuage, except a furnace cupboard, great chair, four table boards,
2 tester bedsteads, a great brass pan, and "the halfe-headed bedstead ";
his son William Stokes, his leasehold estate in Heytesbury lor the rest
of his term, and that part of the said messuage not before bequeathed,
and the arable lands and pasture lands thereto belonging subject to the
said annuity of ^16, and if William die without issue the remainder to
be divided between his (John's) daughters Alice Debnam and Mary
Hopton equally; the other part of the messuage after the decease of his
wife also to go to William Stokes his son, and on the hitter's death with-
out issue to his said two daughters, subject to an annuity of £\o to
William's wife if he leave one on his death ; his son William, residuary
legatee and executor. '-The mark of John Stokes." Seal in red wax;
device, a stag's head. Witnesses, William Edwards, gentleman, John
Gibbs, and Edward Slade.
[Archdeacon's Court, Sarum.]
John Stokes, of Bishopstrow, 1687.
Inventory ol the goods of John Stokes, ot Bishopstrow, yeoman,
made 9 June 16S7, consisting of a few cattle and household furniture,
and a small chatile lease at Heytesbury worth 15//., in all amounting
to £131 15^
[Consistory Court, Sarum.]
Jane Stokes, of Devizes, 1699.
Bond for faithful administration of the goods of Jane Stokes, of
Devizes, deceased, of her daughter, Jane Rogers, of Devizes, her ad-
ministrator, and John Filkes and John Hancock, of the same, clothiers,
dated 20 May, a.d. 1699.
Inventory of the goods of Jane Stokes, of Devizes, widow, taken
30 June a.d. 1699.
lib.
s.
d.
Imprimis in wood
1 7
0
0
In malt, malt mill and measures .
0
0
In linen
7
0
0
In ready money, plate and rings .
12
0
0
In wearing apparell
5
0
0
In debts
• 30
0
0
83 o o
Stokes.
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Exhibited in the Consistory Court, Sarum, 5 March 1 699/1 700, by
Jane Rogers, widow, daughter of deceased.
[Archdeacon's Court, Sarum.]
James Stokes, of Keevil, 1706.
Bond of Joan Stokes, widow, of Keevil. and Samuel Haynes, of
Bulkington, dyer, for the administration by Joan Stokes of the goods of
James Stokes, late of Keevil, deceased, intestate, dated 6 May, A.D. 1706.
With an inventory of the goods and chattells of the said James Stokes
made 9 March 1706. consisting of cattle, cheese, and common articles of
household furniture and implements, amounting to ,£251 14J. 4^.
[Archdeacon's Court, Sarum.]
Testament of William Stokes, of Semington, 1710.
September 14 A.D. 1710. William Stokes, of Semington, yeoman,
whereas by indenture tripartite dated 15 June 1709, in consideration of
his marriage with Eleanor Sparrow, spinster, daughter of Eleanor
Sparrow, of Corsham, W7ilts, widow, he sold to Thomas Flower, junr.,
of Benacre, gentleman, and the said Eleanor Sparrow, widow, a
messuage in Semington, and all barns, stables, backsides, etc., belong-
ing, containyng \h acres, an acre, a meadow ground in Westmead, a
parcel of meadow ground in a meadow called Downe Field, belonging
to Robert Drinkwater, containing a yard of land, a close of arable or
pasture ground called Down Feild of 5 acres, the highway lying on the
east side thereof, and the ground of [ ] Howell, widow, on the west
side thereof; 2 other closes of pasture also called Down Feild of 9
acres, the land belonging to the Farm of Semington, laying on the east
and west sides thereof, a 'close of 2 acres called Barter .... of
2 acres, land of Anne Twyford on the east, and land of Thomas Tucker
on the west ; and h acre of arable in the common fields of Semington,
and all manner of ways, waters, woods, etc. Reversions, remainders and
rents, etc., and all his right title, etc., in the same, and whereas the said
indenture is in full force, now in case he and said Eleanor his wife
die without heirs of his body begotten by said Eleanor, whereby the
uses mentioned in the indenture will be extinct, then he devizes the
said messuage and lands mentioned in the indenture to Elizabeth
Stokes and Jane Stokes, daughters of John Stokes, of Semington,
clothworker. after the death of himself and his wife and the lawful
heirs of their bodies, for failure of issue, the moiety oi the one so dying
to go to the survivor, and on failure of issue of both, the whole to go in
lee simple to William Stokes, son ol Richard Stokes, of Semington,
husbandman, and his heirs and assigns forever. He bequeaths to the
said Elizabeth and Jane Stokes 2 closes of arable and pasture ground
in Keevil Wood, in Keevil Parish, the one 6 acres called Erncycs Close
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or Ernleyes Ground, and the other 14 acres called Smith's Close or
Ground, now in the possession of William Jenkins, of Seend Head
mill, his tenant, and the heirs of their bodies, for failure of issue,
the remainder to go as above to William Stokes, subject to the
payment as below of 2 sums of £1 to Robert Richard Stokes, two sums
of jC3 and two sums of 20s. to the said John and Richard Stokes; to
the said Elizabeth and Jane, his leasehold house and close inSemington,
in possession of John Phillips, known as the sign of the Bell, his estate
being for a term of 99 years determinable on his death and the death ot
Anne Lucas and John Howell, they to permit Eleanor his wife to occupy
it during her widowhood; to his brother Robert Stokes, of "Castle
Forten Yard", near Aldersgate, London, bricklayer, and to his brother
Richard Stokes, of Tinhcad, ^5 apiece, in quarterly payments, and to
John and Richard, son of Richard Stokes, his kinsman, 20s. and a
piece yearly out of the above said two closes in Keevil. The rest of his
goods, etc., he bequeaths to Eleanor his wife, whom lie makes his
executor, with Henry Coulthurst, of Semington, clothier, and
Christopher Brewer, of Beckington, co. Somerset, as overseers," to
keep peace between my executrix and all other persons concerned in
his will. Signed, William Stokes, his mark (with red seal not heraldic) ;
witnesses, Thomas Scales. Hannah Steevens, Anne Sparrow, Frances
Webb.
[Proved 11 Nov. 1710. With the oath of Eleanor Stokes as to the
above being her husband's will, and her faithful administration of his
goods, etc., taken 11 October 1710.]
[P.C.C. 245 Barnes.]
Will of Abjohn Stokes, a.d. 1712.
1, Abjohn, of Titherton Lucas, esquire, revoking, etc., give unto my
son Abjohn Stokes one shilling, to be paid to him by my executor in one
year alter my decease if lawfully demanded ; my son-in-law Mr. John
Meriweather, all my messuages, lauds, tenements, and hereditaments, as
well in possession as in reversion, with their appurtenances that I have
not otherwise conveyed to him or in trust for him to have to him his
heirs and assigns forever ; also all my moneys paid into the Court of
Chancery by Daniel Parke, esquire, or his orders, and all other my goods
and chattels, the said John Meriweather my sole executor; the. execu-
tors, administrators, representatives, or whom it concerneth, of Michael
Naish and Henry Rogers, both long since deceased, my trustees or the
survivor of them to make the said John Meriweather, his executors,
administrators, or assigns, a legal title as well as he hath now in equity
to certain closes called by the several names of Warthe Lease, Long
Meade, and Great Meade Lease, pursuant to a deed by me and my wife
executed, dated 12 December 30 Charles II, "deceased annoquc Domini
S/okcs.
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1678", and recited in a deed of assignment dated 17 June, a.d. 1693, and
executed by me to convey the said closes to Jeffery Meriweather, his
executors, administrators, and assigns, and as lie should direct for his
wife and family, for the raising certain sums of money and interest as
therein, or that the executors, administrators, or assigns of my trustees,
Xaish and Rogers, or the survivor of them, do otherwise raise the said
money and all interest for the said John Meriweather and family as and
according to the power by me to them and the trust in them vested by
my deeds for that aforesaid purpose. Signed and sealed by the said
Abjohn Stokes, 4 February, a.d. 1706. Witnesses, Edward Sly, Robert
Mitten, Anne Meriweather, Abjohn Meriweather.
[December 20, a.d. 1712, commission was granted to William
Meriweather, of the parish of St. Clement Danes, co. Middlesex,
victualler, to administer the goods, etc., of Abjohn Stokes, esquire,
late of Titherton Lucas, co. Wilts, but deceased at Hilperton, co.
Wilts, to the effect that the said William Meriweather shall be the
defendant or a defendant in a cause lately instituted by John Meri-
weather, gentleman, in the High Court of Chancery against Abjohn
Stokes, son and heir of the deceased, John Gasper Keising, John Town-
send, Thomas Andrews, Thomas Crooke, George Meriweather, senr.,
George Meriweather, junr., and William Slade, or any other litigation
as to the messuages, tenements, and lieriditaments of the deceased.]
[Archdeacon's Court, Saru.m.J
William Stokes, of Bishopstrow, 1729.
William Stokes, of Bishopstrow. yeoman : his grandson Samuel
Stokes, ^"ioo on attai ning 21 years ; his granddaughter Elizabeth Stokes,
jC-o; his granddaughter Martha Stokes, £20, and his granddaughter
Christian Stokes, on their age of 21 years, the legacy of either ot
them so dying to go to his grandson Samuel Stokes, and if Elizabeth
die before a half year after the death of himself and his wife, her legacy
likewise is to go to Samuel Stokes on his attaining his age of 21 years;
his messuage and lands in the parish of Bishopstrow to his grand-
daughter Mary .Stokes and her heirs, chargeable with the payment of
the said legacies ; his grandson John Stokes, 5s.] his son-in-law John
Stokes, is.; the poor of Bishopstrow, 20s. ; all his personal estate he
leaves to his wile Dorothy, and she to be executrix. Dated 9 August
1729. Witnesses, Ann Bennett. Wm. Bennett, Win. Wheeler. Signed.
William Stokes with red seal— a hare runnings with LEPVS above it.
With the attestation of Dorothy Stokes, widow, dated 18 June 1737,
annexed.
(To be continued.)
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RECORDS OF WILTSHIRE PARISHES.
ERCHFONT WITH STERT.
(Continued from Vol. v} p. 549.)
Clerical Subsidy, Sarum, 54/3 5 2b. [8-9 Charles /.}
Names of those refusing to pay the second payment o f the
$rd subsidy granted by the Clergy, 4 Charles I, and due istjune
last, 1633 :—
a.d. 1633-34. — Erchefont Vicarage. — Peter Glasbrookc,
clerk, vicar of Erchefont, required to pay the second payment
of the said 3rd subsidy refused, whose tenth of the subsidy-
is 28s.
Court of Wards and Liveries Deeds. [Boc. 139, no. 7
(temp. Charles J).]
Draught deed of Sir William Eyre, of Great Chaulfeild,
Wilts, declaring that he had paid the sum of 5s. to the use of
the poor of the parish of Urchfounte, to John Longe, esq., of
South Wraxall, for the making void of a certain deed therein
mentioned, dated 22 May, 22 James 1.
Fine Roll. [9 Charles J, pt. /, no. 32.]
a.d. 1633. — Whereas by inquest taken on death of William
Noysc it was found that Robert Noyes, his father, was seized,
etc., of 3 messuages, 5 cottages, 4 tofts, 57 acres of land,
6 acres of meadow, 8 acres of pasture, 2 acres of wood, 20
acres of gorse and heather and common of pasture in Erch-
font, alias Urchfont, alias Escott and Vrchfont Escott ; of a
messuage and a virgate of land, and a curtilage, 2 gardens, 2
orchards, 30 acres of land, 6 acres of meadow, 12 acres of
pasture, and 2 acres of wood in Erchfont and Stockwecke,
called by the name of Northcombe ; a messuage called Slopers-
hold and a garden, an orchard, 5 acres of land, 6 acres of
Records of Wiltshire Parishes.
meadow, 12 acres of pasture, belonging thereto in Erchfont ;
a messuage called the Downehousc and 50 acres of land, i(>
acres of pasture, 4 acres of meadow, common of pasture for
12 animals and 6 horses, 120 sheep, and free pannage for 12
pigs in the commons and woods of Erchfont thereto belonging;
an enclosure of pasture called Manners of 10 acres, and an
enclosure of pasture called Cophopkins of 2 acres in Erch-
font: by indenture dated 12 February, 7 James I, between
him and his sons Robert and William on the one part, and
Sir John Ernele, William Blacker, esq., and Walter Ernele on
the other ; in consideration of the marriage between said
William No3-se and Anne Ernele, he conveyed the premises
to use of William for life, and after his death to Anne, and
after her death to William's lawful issue, and for default to
right heirs of William ; which marriage was solemnized on
15 February, 9 James I, and a line was levied on the premises
to the uses of said indenture in Trinity term, 8 James I ; by
virtue whereof the said William Noyse on his death was
seized of the premises, whereof the 3 messuages, 5 cottages,
etc., are held of the king by the 40th part of a knight's fee;
and- the said William died on 27 October, 16 James I, and
William Noyse his son and heir was on 1 1 January, 16 James I,
6 years, 11 months, 2 weeks, and 3 days old ; the King orders
seisin to be given to William Noyse, the son being now of
full age. Westminster, 23 November.
Ibid., No. 35.
a.d. 1633. -Order to the Eschaetor to deliver seisin to
James Flower, now of age, of the property of his father, William
Flower, in Erchfont and Escott. \Vide luq. post-mortem
William Flower, 2 Oct., 15 James I.] Westminster, 19
November.
Feet or Finks, Wilts. [Hilary, 12 Charles I. ]
a.d. 1636-7. — Fine made in octave of St. Hilary, 12
Charles II, between Walter Ernele, esq., plaintiff, and William
Jeay, clerk, and Anne his wife, deforciants, of the manor of
1 2 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Northcombe, and 6 messuages, 6 gardens, So acres of land, 4
acres of meadow, 14 acres of pasture, and 755. Sd. rent, and
common of pasture in Urchfount. Right of Walter and quit-
claim and warranty against W. Jeay and Anne, and heirs of
Anne, for £ijSo.
Fine Roll. [14 Charles I, no. 52.]
a.d. 163S. — Order to the Escheator of Wilts to deliver
seisin to John Saynesbury, son and heir of John Saynesbury,
deceased 12 September, 12 Charles I, his father's lands; viz.,
3 messuages, a toft, 54J- acres of land, 36 acres of pasture, and
common of pasture for 90 sheep in Escott and Urchfountc.
John the son being at the time of his father's death 40 years
old and more. Westminster, 26 April.
Feet of Fines, Wilts. [Trinity, 18 Charles I.]
a.d. 1642. — Fine made 3 weeks after feast of the Holy
Trinity, 18 Charles I, between Robert Hawkins and John
Paradice, junior, plaintiff, and William Whood, alias Crooke,
and Alice his wife, and John Paradice,1 senior, deforciants, of
a messuage, 2 barns, 2 gardens, an orchard, 70 acres of land,
14 acres of meadow, 100 acres of pasture, and common of
pasture in Urchfount, alias Erchfont, alias Ursheont and
Northcombe. Right of Robert Hawkins and quit claim and
warranty to him and J. Paradice, junior, and the heirs of
Robert for ^200 sterling.
Ibid. [Michaelmas, 24 Charles I. \
a.d. 164S. — Fine 3 weeks after Michaelmas, 24 Charles 1,
between John Muspratt, plaintiff, and Edward Howard, esq.,
and Anne his wife, and John Richards, esq., and Elizabeth his
wife, deforciants, of 2 parts of a messuage, 5 cottages, 12 acres
of land, 2 acres of meadow, 20 acres of pasture, and common
of pasture in Erchefont, alias Urchfont, alias Urchcont. Right
of John Muspratt for £60 sterling.
1 John Paradice, of Seend, in his will, 168*1, leaves 50*. fo poor of ,^tert ;
his sister Anne married a Crooke. — [Ed. J
Records of Wiltshire Parishes.
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Ibid. \Mkhaelmasi a.d. 1649.]
a.d. 1649. — Fine made on the morrow of All Soul?,
between Edmund Proby,1 clerk, Robert Beach, gent., and
William Watts, gent., plaintiffs, and Susan Eyre, widow,
Edward Howard, esq., and Anne his wife, and John Richards,
esquire, and Elizabeth his wife, deforciants, of 6 messuages, 8
cottages, 4 barns, 4 tofts, 12 gardens, 12 orchards, 190 acres
of land, 22 acres of meadow, 60 acres of pasture, 4 acres of
wood, 20 acres of gorse and heather, and common of pasture
in Erchfont, Escott, and Stockweeke. Right of Edmund
Proby and warranty to him, R. Beach and W. Watts, and
heirs of Edm. Proby for ^240 sterling.
Felt of Finks, Wilts. [Mic/iae/inas, 1649.]
a.d. 1649.-- Fine 3 weeks after Michaelmas, between
William Shergoll, plaintiff, and Robert Hawkins and Mary his
wife, and William Whood, alias Crooke, and Alice his wife,
deforciants, of a messuage, a barn, a garden, an orchard, 35
acres of land, 7 acres of meadow, 50 acres of pasture and
common of pasture in Urchfont and Northcomb. Right of
William Shergoll for ^100.
Historical MSS. Com. Report on tup: Quarter Sessions,
Co. Wilts, pp. 113, 122, and 131.
a.d. 1646-47. — The ale-houses at Urchfont, where Richard
Wall was "minister", were suppressed.
a.d. 1650. — Thomas Fisher, a labourer, lent to Stephen
Greatrex, vicar of Stert for the last three years, by the gift of
Mr. Wall, vicar of Erchfont, ^27 upon the security of tithes
and compositions for tithes, Stert not being worth 205. from
Michaelmas to Midsummer ; but he complains that the
1 An Edmund Proby, ob. 1US4, set. 8G, with arms ermine, on a fess a lion
j)as$ant% is buried under a tlat stone, outside north wall of chancel of
Broughton Gilford Church.— [Ed.]
;
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parishioners now refuse the payments which should have
begun at Michaelmas last; the vicar petitions to the same
effect.
a.d. 1655. — James Gaston, of Timsborowe, "coal finder",
represents that he had leave from the Earl of Hertford, lord
of the manor of Erchfont, to dig there for coal, which he has
great hopes of finding, and was encouraged by the tenants so
to do; but now the latter, fearing that he may dig in their
grounds, fall off, and the miners are ready to desist for want of
pay ; he prays, therefore, for assistance. " Noe order ; he
was absent."
Particulars for Fee Farm Rents. [(Augmentation Office).
Commonwealth, Wilts. Roll 92, no. 372.]
Parcel! of the Monastery of Edington.
Manor of Escote. — Rents reserved for the manors of
Escote and Urchfounte, with their rights member and appur-
tenances in co. Wilts, belonging to the late Monastery of
Edington, and by letters patent dated 12 June, 37 Henry VIII,
granted to James Tutt and Nicholas Hame their heirs and
assigns for yearly rent at Michaelmas of 37s. id.
Land in Dicherudge. — Rents reserved, etc., 12s. 8c/.
These particulars are made forth by warrant from the
honbIC the Trustees appointed by Act of Parliament for the
sale of the fee farm rents, 27 March 1651.
Inm. Roll 84, no. 294. [Parcel of the Possessions of the
Priory 0] Great Malvern.]
Tenths in Stert. — Fee farm of all tenths greater and
lesser of whatsoever kind yearly issuing in Stert, in the parish
of Urchiant, alias Urchfont, belonging to late monastery of
Great Malvern, or granted amongst other things to Edmund
Downings and Miles Dodding, their heirs and assigns, by
letters patent dated 14 March, 30 Elizabeth, to hold of said
Queen and her heirs and successors as of her manor of East
Records of Wiltshire Parishes. 1 5
Greenwich by fealty and in common soccage, and the yearly
rent payable at the feasts of Annunciation and Michaelmas in
equal portions of 40s.
Feet of Fines, Wilts. [Trinity, a.d. 1653.]
Fine on the morrow of the Holy Trinity, a.d. 1653.
Between Robert Amor and William Longcroft, plaintiffs, and
William Eyre, gent., and Sarah his wife, deforciants, of a
backside, a watermill, a garden, an orchard, 16 acres of
meadow, 7 acres of pasture and common of pasture for all
manner of cattle in Erchfont, otherwise Urchfont. Right of
Robert Amor, with quitclaim and warranty to him and William
Longcroft against William Eyre and Sarah and the heirs of
William Eyre, for eighty pounds sterling.
State Papers Domt.stic Calkndar, 1653-54. p. 53. [Council
of Stale. Day's Proceedings.']
a.d. 1653, July 27. — Order to Capt. Fauconberg [the Par-
liamentary Receiver-General] to pay the augmentations to
Ralph London, preacher at Hereford, and to Chris. Hindley,
minister at Urchfont.
Feet of Fines, Wilts. [Hilary, a.d. 1653.]
Fine made eight days after St. Hilary, a.d. [653, between
Edmund Probv, D.D., Golding Prentice, gentleman, and
William Statts, plaintiffs, and John Richards, esq., and Eliza-
beth his wife, deforciants, of 3 messuages, 3 cottages, 3 barns,
2 tofts, 4 gardens, 4 orchards, 64 acres of land, 6 acres of
meadow, 20 acres of pasture, 1 acre of wood, 7 acres of furze
heath and common of pasture for all manner of cattle, with
the appurtenances in Urchfont, Escott, and Stockwcck. The
right of Edmund Proby, with warranty to him and G. Prentice
and W. Statts, against Richard and Elizabeth and her heirs,
for "the sum of money between them accorded".
Ffft of Fines, Wilts. [Easier, a.d. 1655.]
Fine on the morrow of Ascension Day, a.d. 1655, between
Thomas Keylway, gent., and Golding Prentice, gent., plain-
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Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
tiff's, and Edward Howard, esq., and Anne his wife, deforciants,
of a messuage, 4 cottages, 66 acres of land, 7 acres of meadow,
40 acres of pasture and common of pasture for all manner of
cattle, with appurtenances in Erchfont, otherwise Urchfont,
Escott and Stockweeke. The right of Thomas Keylway.
Quitclaim and warranty to T. Keylway and G. Prentice, and
the heirs of T. Keylway against Edward Howard and Anne
and her heirs for ,£100 sterling.
Ibid. [Trinity, a.d. 1655.]
Fine eight days after the Feast of the Holy Trinity,
a.d. 1655, between John Ernele, esq., Jeffery Daniell, esq., and
Thomas Keleway, gentleman, plaintiff-, and Susanna Eyre,
widow, and Roger Williams and Anne his wife, deforciants, of
2 messuages, 7 cottages, a barn, 2 tofts, 9 gardens, 9 orchards,
40 acres of land, 4 acres of meadow, 20 acres of pasture, 1 acre
of wood, 7 acres of furze and heath and common of pasture
for all manner of cattle in Erchfont alias Urchfont, Escott and
Stockweeke. Right of John Ernele, with quitclaim and
Warranty to him and J. Daniell and T. Keleway and heirs of
John, against Susanna and her heirs and Roger and Anne
and heirs of Anne, for ^ioo sterling.
Ibid. [Mieliaelmas, a.d. 1655.]
Fine three weeks after the feast of St. Michael, a.d. 1655,
between William Shergoll the elder, plaintiff, and William
Whood, otherwise Crooke, and Alice his wife, and Elizabeth
Paradice, widow, deforciants, of the moiety of a messuage, 2
barns, 2 gardens, an orchard, 70 acres of land, 14 acres of
meadow, 100 acres of pasture and common of pasture for all
manner of cattle, with appurtenances in Urchfont, othcrwi-e
Urchfont or Ursheont, and Northcombe. Right of William
Shergoll and warranty to him and his heirs against W. Whood,
and Alice, and heirs of W. Whood, and against Elizabeth and
her heirs, for £\oo sterling.
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Records of Wiltshire Parishes.
Ibid. [Easter, a.d. 1656.]
Fine made fifteen days after Easter Day, a.d. 1656,
between Walter Ernie, esq., plaintiff, and John Muspratt and
Edith his wife, deforciants, of a messuage, 5 cottages, 12 acres
of land, 2 acres of meadow, 20 acres of pasture and common
of pasture for all manner of cattle, with the appurtenances in
Erchefont, otherwise Urchfont, otherwise Urcheont. The
right of Walter Ernie and quitclaim to him, and warranty
against John and Edith and heirs of John for ^60 sterling.
Feet of Fines, Wilts. [Hilary, 15-16 Charles II]
a.d. 1663. — Fine made on the morrow of the feast of the
Purification, 16 Charles II, between John Mason alias Fauke,
plaintiff, and Robert Neat and Jane his wife, John Gibbes and
Margery his wife, John Hay ward and Edith his wife, Robert
Orchard and Joan his wife, Mary Willis, Roland Cram and
Lucy his wife, and John Cram and Emma his wife, deforciants,
of a cottage, a curtilage, and a garden with appurtenances in
Urchfont. The right of John Mason, and quitclaim to him
and his heirs, with warranty against Robert Neat and Jane
and heirs of Robert, against J. Gibbes and Margery and her
heirs, against John Hay ward and Edith and the heirs of
Edith, against R. Orchard and Joan and her heirs, against
Mary Willis and her heirs, against Roland and Luc}- Cram
and heirs of Roland, and against John Cram and Emma and
the heirs of John Cram, for ^40 sterling.
Ibid. [Trinity, 18 Charles II]
a.d. 1666.-- Fine made fifteen days after the feast of the
Holy Trinity, 18 Charles II, between Thomas Neate, gentle-
man, and Adam Goldney, plaintiffs, and Israel Noyes and
Margery his wife, deforciants, of 4 messuages, 2 cottages,
4 gardens, 4 orchards, 40 acres of land, 8 acres of meadow,
0 acres of pasture and common of pasture for all kind of cattle,
in Erchfont alias Urchfont alias Urshont, Escott and Calne.
1 he right of Thomas Neate and quitclaim to him and Adam
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and heirs of Thomas, and warranty against Israel and Mar-
gery and the heirs of Israel, for p£ioo sterling.
Feet of Fines, Wilts. [Hilary, 29-30 Charles II.]
a.d. 1677. — Fine made in the octave of the feast of the
Purification, 30 Charles II, between John Richards, esquire,
plaintiff, and Edward Howard, esquire, and Lucy his wife,
deforciants, of 16 messuages, 3 barns, 2 tofts, 10 gardens,
10 orchards, no acres of land, 10 acres of meadow, 54 acres
of pasture, 10 acres of wood and common of pasture, with the
appurtenances in Erchfont, Escott and Stockweeke. The
right of John Richards and quitclaim to him and heirs,
against Edw. Howard and Lucy and the heirs of Edward, for
^260 sterling.
Ibid. [Hilary, 30-31 Charles II.)
a.d. 1678. — Fine made fifteen days after Martinmas,
30 Charles II, and afterwards in the octave of St. Hilary,
recorded between William Pynsent, gentleman, plaintiff, and
John Richards, esquire, and Margaret his wife, deforciants, of
16 messuages, 3 barns, 2 tofts, 10 gardens, 10 orchards, i 10
acres of land, 10 acres of meadow, 54 acres of pasture, 10 acres
of wood and common of pasture in Erchfont, Escott, and
Stockweek. The right of W. Pynsent and quitclaim to him
and heirs, and warranty against John Richards and Margaret
and heirs of John, and against Edward Howard, esquire, and
his heirs, and against John Richards, esquire, father of the
aforesaid John, for ,£200 sterling.
Rixoverv Roll. [Easter, 34 Charles II, r. 235.]
a.d. 1682. Wilts. — William Pynsent, c.^q., sues against
Bartholomew Tothill, gent., 16 messuages, a dovecot, 16 gar-
dens, 120 acres of land, 12 acres of meadow, 50 acres of
pasture, 10 acres of wood and common of pasture for all kinds
of cattle in Urchfont alias Erchfont, Escott and Stockwicke.
John St. Barbe, bart., and John Wheeler, vouchees.
The Chrysom Book of St. Thomas, New Sarum. 19
Feet of Fixes, Wilts. [Hilary, 36-37 Charles II]
a.d. 1684. — Fine made on morrow of the Purification of
the B. V. Mary, 37 Charles II, between Richard Halliday,
'gentleman, plaintiff", and Joan Giddings, widow, deforciant, of
5 acres of meadow and 9 acres of pasture, with the appurten-
ances in Escott and Urchfont. The right of R. Halliday with
quitclaim and warranty for £60 sterling.
Recovery Roll. [Hilary, 2-3 James IL]
a.d. 1686. Wilts.— William Noye>, gentleman, sues
against Henry Hatsell, esquire, 3 messuages, a water-mill,
6 gardens, 40 acres of land, 4 acres of meadow, 15 acres of
pasture, one acre of wood and common of pasture for 94 sheep,
and common of pasture for all kinds of cattle in Escott and
Urshfont alias Erchfont. John St. Barbe, bart., and John
Wheeler, vouchees.
Feet of Fines, Wilts. [Eas/ery 7 William III.}
a.d. 1695. — Fine made fifteen days after Easter Day,
7 William III, between William Pynsent, Bart., plaintiff, and
John Shergoll and William Shergoll, deforciants, of a barn,
41 acres of land, 9 acres of meadow, 25 acres of pasture, 60
acres of gorse and heather and common of pasture for all kind
of cattle in Erchfont alias Ushant. The Right of William
Pynsent and quitclaim and warranty against the deforciants
and their heirs, for ^160 sterling.
E. M. Thompson.
(To be continued.)
THE CHRYSOM BOOK OF ST. THOMAS, NEW SARUM.
(Contained from Vol. vf p. 566.)
>5- It.: James Clarks wyffe the second June 157S.
i&. „ Nycholas Ansells wyffe the 4th June.
x7' n John Clarke maryed the 16th of June.
IS. Anthony Pdope wyfe churched the 16 of June.
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Mydsomer Quarter, 1578.
1. It. : The laste of June John Grystes wyffe churched.
2. John Watyngs wyffe churched the same daye.
3. „ The Tayllers offeringe the 27 and 8th of July.
4. „ Willm. Goodrydgs wyffe churched the 9 of Jul}'.
5. „ Grace Davye churched the 26 Julye.
6. Anthony Nycholas maryed the same daye.
7. || Richard Rice maried the second day of August.
7. „ John Cred wyffe churched the 6 of August.
8. „ Robart Bents churched the 6th of August.
9. „ Thomas Tovi wyffe churched the 9th of August.
[ ] the 16th of August.
10. || William Colman maried the 21th of August.
11. ,, Thomas Tycheborne wyffe churched the 21st of August.
12. ,, Harry Banam wyffe churched the same daye.
13. ,, Robat Werets wyffe churched the xxiii of August 157S.
A strange weddynge the xxix Auguste 157S.
Thomas Gauntlat maryed the iiird daye of September 157S.
13. ,, Thomas Htmtes wyffe churched the viii of September 1578.
14. ., Mr. [ — ] Hundons wyffe churched the same day.
15. „ Water Pipen wyffe churched the same day.
16. || A churche wyffe the xviii of September 157S.
17. „ Edward Mylls wyffe churched the xxxi of September.
iS. „ Nycholas Kerby wyffe churched the xxv September 1 57S.
19. Richard Spender wyffe churched the xxviii of September 157S.
Michaellmas Quarter unto Chrismas.
1. It. : Thomas Reads wyffe churched the viii of October.
2. „ John Cockerells wyffe the ix ol October.
A stranger maried the xii of October.
3. Water Bellis wyffe churched the 1 3 of October.
4. ,, [ -] Roberds wyffe churched the 13 of October. .
John Tanner married the xv of October.
5. „ Willyam Cobhame wyffe churched the iS of October.
Thomas Laci maried the 19 of October.
6. ., William Sperings wyffe churched the xxii of October.
7. ,, Mr. Robart Bower wyffe churched the 22 of October.
8. „ William Noble wyffe churched the 27 of October.
9. ,, Harri Grenes wyffe churched the 2S of October.
10. ., William Vantell [or Vautell] wyffe churched 2 of November.
Cfor. Tomson maryed the 16 of November.
11. Lewke Nortons wyfle churched 17 of November.
12. ,. Eadeth Leudey churched the 20 of November.
13. „ Harry Marke wyffe churched the 22 of November.
14. ,, Hary Rugley wyfle churched the 24 of November.
Robart [ ] maryed the 26 of November,
The Chrysom Book of St. Thomas, New Sarum. 21
Jo. Watkins maried the 6 of December.
15. „ Jo. Brickets vvyfe churched the 8 of December.
16. || Youstes Weste wyffe churched the xii of December.
17. ,, Mr. Thorleys wyffe churched the xv of December.
15. ,, Willyam Etons wyffe the xiii of December.
19. Thomas Elyots wyffe the xv of December.
Chrism as Quarter unto Or Ladi Day.
1. It.: .Mr. Nicholas Hill wyffe churched the 2S of Decber.
2. „ Thomas Dragon wyffe churched the 30 (if Decber.
3. ,, John Denmead wyffe churched the 31 of Decber.
4. Thomas Barons wyffe churched the 31 of Decber.
5. ,, Willm. Robarts wyffe churched 9 of January 157S-9.
6. ., Chfor. Jirrets [?] wyffe churched the 9 of January.
Thomas Hood wyffe churched the v of January.
7. ,, Willm. Hanntonne wyffe churched the S of January.
S. „ Hew Stons wyffe the xxvi of Jaiiary churched.
10. Rye the dyars wyffe at Fyshertone Brydge churched the
xxvi January.
11. ,, Rye Wests wyffe churched tin: xxix of January.
12. Robart Letts wyffe the same daye churched.
Rychard Caverford marryed the 5 of febrewar)-.
13. Rice Uprobarts wyffe churched the 12 of febrewary.
Roger Willis maryed the 14 of febrewary.
John Perkins maryed the 14 of febrewary.
14. „ John Catars wyffe churched the 16 of februaiy.
• 5- John Wheler wyffe churched the 24 of febrewary.
16. Mris. Weeks merys churched tin: fyrste of marche.
John Loudwell maryed the third daye of marche.
• 7- »< A churche wyff the xviii of marche.
18. ,, Steferi Taulbots wyffe churched the 19 of marche.
'9- >, Robart Parkers wyffe the. xxi of marche.
Churche wyves 111 and hollo [ ], Sinces lenens liadit ixxvi,
and the taylors offeryne besyds ; Sinces leuens liadit there be in church
wyflfes and wedens and the taylers offeryns, Ixxxxv.
From the xxvi day of Maye 1579.
Raphe Tyas wyffe che. xxvi of Maye 1579; Raphe Tyas wyffe
otferyng, yl. qa., and hir crisom, $d. ; Ric. Wards wyff of., ob. qa., and
hir crysom, 6c/. ; John Keiys [King erased] and Jone Beryman maried
the 30 of May 1579. and her offering, ~<l. ob., mairyed by a lyssence;
John Perses wyte churched the 30 of May. crysome, (u/., offering,
yd. ob. ; John 1'acpner.s wyffe churched the fyrste of Juno tor her
offerynge, 6d. ob.; Harry Lanes wyte churched the vili of |une, and hir
offeringe', iiic/. qa., and hir chrisom, <o<l.\ Anthony Works marryed
Barbery Securyes the xv of June 1579. and his offerynge, \\\s. ob. qa.
Sum ys vi,y. xv/.
22 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Reseved of Raffe Rugeleye by me, Thomas Barber, the xxiii of June
from the xxvi of Maye 1579, for weddings and churchings, the summe of
vis. xd.
From the Feaste of St. John Baptiste to the Feaste of
St. Mychaelltharchangell, 1579.
Thomas Wlls wyffe the 25 of June fur her offerynge, 2<i. qa. ;
Richard Wells wyffe churched the first of Julii, for her crisom, iiiir/., and
hir offering, ob. ; John Deane married Alies Fulles the second of Julii,
his offeringe, xd. qa. ; Willyam Furuier marryed Alyes Dauling, yd. ob.;
the Taylers offerynge the vi day of July, m\s. xd. ob. qa. ; Willyam Eyrs
wyffe churched the xi daye of Julye, for her cryssome, viic/., for her
offerynge, id. ob. ; Willyam Stevens maryed wth Agnis Hoare the xi of
July, theyre offringe, 6d.\ John Gorin marryed Elysebeth Coulter the
xii daye of July, \2</.\ John Longmane marryed Mary Ronyen the
xii day of July, xxd. ; Thomas Jee wyffe churched the xiii of July, for
hir crisom, \n\d., hir offering, ob. qa.; Robert Fysher maryed Jone
Semer the xix of July, they r offerynge, $d. ; Rychard Rychards maryed
Alesc Tomsone xix of Julye. an a greyd offerynge, iii.v. ; Robart Ashelyes
wyffe churched the xx of July, for her cryssome, 6d., her offeringe,
iiiitif.qa.; Nycholas Knyght wyffe churched the 27 of July. 2 crisoms, Sd.,
and hir offeringe, 5^/.; Peter Robarts wyffe the 3 of August, for hir
crisom, 6d., and hir offerynge, id. ; Willyam Feld wyffe churched the
6 of August, for hir crisom, 4^.. and hir offeryng, ob. qa. ; Thomas
Robinsone wyffe churched the xv daye of August, for her cryssome, $d.,
and offerynge, id. ob. qa. ; Olyver Powell marryed Margery Malyard
the xvii of August, lyi. ; Steven Market wyff churched the 27 of August,
and for here chrisom, $d., here offering, id. ob. ; Gyles Dreytone maried
Jane Huete the 29 of Augoste, the offeringe, yl.\ John Leysey maried
Cristien Gunte the 31 of Augoste, the offearinge, yi.\ Thomas Mottere
and Jone Marchant were maried the 14 of September, x'ul. ; John
Stonexes wife chorched the 24 of September, for her crisome, 4//., and
her offering, 2d. ob. qa. ; Rychard Edwardes wife churched the 26 of
September, for her crisom. 6d., off, id. ob. ; Rychard Morse and Jone
Jarvise ware maried the 2S of September, the offeringe, n\d. ob. Sum
of all, 215. 2d. ob. qa.
Resevid for offerynges and churcheyngs 01 wiles the- second ol
October 1579 of Raffe Rugley by the handes of Mr. Thomas Barker.
From the Feaste of Saint Michaell to the Nativitic ol"
Criste, 1579.
John Wanleres wife churched the firste of October, the crisom,
h\'uf., offeringe, id. ob. : John Grinnawaie and Jone Grigge marred the
3 of October, 2d.; John Jordenne his wile churched the 5 of October,
for the crisome, $d., aud the offeringe, 7\d. qa. ; Rychard Up Thomas
his wife churched the 7 of October,' the crisome, $d.t the offeringe,
The Chrysom Booh of St. Thomas, Mew Sarum.
iu/. qa.; Win. Hewlet and Jone OHiver married the S of October, the
offeringe, i2d. qa. ; Roger Painters wifechurched tiie 19 of October, the
crisome, xid., the offeringe. id., -jd. ; Grigori Charkes wife churched the
22 of October, the crisom, vid., offering, id. ob. qa.; Crystofer Cruses
wife churched the 24 of October, her crisoin, iiiirt?., tor her offering,
ob. qa.; Credes wife, the fissher, churched the 28 of October, lor her
crisom, vd.\ her offering, id. ; Humfrey Touseyes wife churched the
same daye, her offering, \d. {Note in margin .*— "The child is Dedde,
no chrysom paid"]; Saundres wile churched the laste of October;
Wm. Fildes wife churched the 5 of November, her crisom, 4^., tin-
offering, id. ; Cristoler Kookes [or Lockes, bloited~\ wife churched the
5 of November, her crisom, 6d.% her offering, id. ; Win. Smithe and
Flsebeth Grey were marred the 9 of November, 2d.; Jone Gilberd
churched the 11 of November, her crisoin, 4c/., her offeringe, id. ob. :
John May maried Margit Hill, widow, the 16 of November, vie/.: Robert
Credes wife churched the 16 of November, for her crisom, vid., her
offering, Hid. ; Harri Maynerds wile churched the same day, her crisom,
vid., for her offering, uld. ; 1 church wife the 19 of November, her crisom,
iiiiV., her offeringe, ob. ; Franncis Spencers wyfe churched the 21 of
November, for her crysome, vid., her offeringe, \\d. ; Henrye Strugneil
maried Margit Wafde the 23 of November, viiid. ob. qa. ; Lyonell
Ginninges his wife churched the 23 of November, her offering, ob. ;
Harri Corrieer maried Margit Corbine the 25 of November, her offering,
xxd. ; John Preseleye his wife churched the seconde ot December, her
crisome and offeringe, iud. ob. ; John Tannercs wife churched the
14 of Desember, her crisom, 6d.. her offeringe, 5c/. Sum, xiiij. uud. qa.
JLaide out lor iii li. of candelles, ixd.
Reseved the xxii daye of Desembar of Raffe Rugeleye the summ
oi xns. and viid., and 7$. [?] lor churchinges and marryges by me,
Thomas Barbidge.
From the Nativity of Or L. God unto tlic Feast of
Annuntiation of oure blessed Ladye St. Marie the Virgine.
Thomas Chickes wile and Richard Haines wile the 23 of Desember,
Chickes crisome, Wud., the other clnlde is Dede, 5c/. ob. ; W in. Fyeres
wile the 30 of Desember, her crisome, viid., her offering, \d. ; Antonie
Ropes wile the same daye, her crisome, vid., her offering, iii</. ob. qa. ;
Mighell Grationes wife the second of Januarie, her crisome, vid., her
offeringe, i\d. ; John Whopers wile the 4 of Januarye, her crisom, vid.,
her oftering, i'\\d. ob. ; VVm. Perse maried Margat Rites the 10 of Januarie,
vid. qa. ; VVm. Leddine maried FUine Stockes the 13 of Januari, \\d. ;
Richard Lukisc maried Join- Lutler the 17 of Januarie, iiij. ; Nicholas
Rogeres maried Jone Skotte the 18 of Januarie, xd. \ John Wicker
maried one Waulter the 18 ot Januarie ; Kockerells his wile churched
the 19 ol Januarie, her crisome, vd., her offeringe, ob. qa.; Thomas
Homes his wife churched the 20 of Januarie, her crisom, Vuid., her
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offeringe, \\\d. ; Thomas Paynes wiffe churched the 20 of Januarie, her
offcringe, \d. ob... hir crisome, \\d. ; John Lydes maried Marget Hemane
the 25 of Januarie, \\\d. ; Robert Donne maried Jone Morse the 30 of
Januarie, \\\d. ; John Mickes maried Maude Waighte the 31 of Januarie,
xxd. ; Robert Sperine maried Grase Battine the 4 of februarie, 5c/.;
John Ahoones [?] wife churched the 6 of Februarie, her crisome, 6d.,
offeringe. 4.V. ; Thomas Whoopers wile churched the 8 of Februarie,
her crisome, 6d., her offering, 3.V/. ; Thomas Shepperdes wife churched
the 1 1 of Februarie, her crisome, 6d.t her offering, 4.V. ; Rychard Prateres
wife churched the 12 of Februarie, her crisom, Sd., her offering, $d. : Mr.
Daniel] Kirtenes wife churched the 15 of Februarie, her crisome, 1 2c/. ;
Water Pipenes wife churched the 15 of Februarie, her crisome, 6d., her
offeringe, \hd.; Thomas Jerretes wife churched the 16 of Februarie, her
[crisome erased'] offering, ob. qa. [Marginal note : — "The childe is
Dedde' J ; Wm. Klarkes wife the 17 of Februarie, her offering. id.]
James Gallies wife churched the 24 of Februarie [the childerne are
dedde], her crisome. 6d., her offeringe. 3^/.; Mr. Hayvvard Meyres
churched the 2S of februarie, her crisome, Sd.; Wm. Gotheridges wife
the 2 of Marche, for her crisome, 6<7., her offeringe, 2\d.\ Rychard
Russill unto Elzebeth Bakortne the 10 of Marche, hir offering, v'md. ob. ;
Robert Writes wife churched the 10 of Marche, her crisome, vid.]
Rychard Becham his wife churched the 11 of Marche, her crisome, 6d.t
her offeringe, \-\d. ; John Mintemes wife churched the 14 of Marche.
her crisome, 6d., her offeringe, yi. qa. ; Giles Dreytone Ins wife churched
the 16 of Marche, her crisome, 4^/., her offeringe, \d. ; Mr. John
Renrodockes wife churched the 22 of Marche, for her crisome, \id.;
Thomas Daries wife churched the 24 of March, her crisome, 6d., her
offeringe, qd. Sum, xxvs. vd. qa.
Layde out for v li. of candells, xvd.
Reseved of Raffe Rugeley the xxv of Marche, Aim. 1580, tint sume
of fiffe and twenty shilyngs and xd. by me, Thomas Barber, churche
warden oi the parrishe of Sainte Thomas, and payd him that same daye
for v li. of candells, xvd.
From the Feaste of Thannutiatione of our ladyc, 1 580, to
the Feaste of Saynte John baptise.
Thomas Ellietes wile churched the 30 of Marche 15N0, her crisome,
6d., her offeringe, 2\d. ; Duenes [?] wife churched the 31 of Marche;
Rafe Simsones wife churched tin- firste of Aprill, her crisome, 3^., her
offeringe, \d.\ Edward Dantones wife churched the 6 of Aprill, her
crisome, 6d.t her offeringe, 2d.; Robert Belles wife churched the
7 of Aprill, her crisome. Gd., her offering, 3.V/. ; Wm. Assheleye unto
Barbara Jansone the 10 of Aprill, hise offeringe, Vis.] Raffe Reaper unto
Annisse Rydewot the 11 of Aprill, her offeringe, vid. ; Wm. Vantiles
wife churched the 13 of Aprill, her crisome, 6d., her offeringe, \\d. ;
John BatitoneS wife churched the 23 of Aprill. her crisome. y/.. her
The Nobility and Gentry of Wiltshire 1673.
offeringe, id. ; Wm. Cobhames wife churched the 18 of Aprille, her
crisome, 6d., her oflferiiige, 2d. ; Thomas •Whodes wife churched the
iS of April], her crisome, 3^., her offeringe, \d.\ Wm. Akries wife
churched the 23 of Apriil, her crisome, 6d., her offeringe, i\d. ; 1 churche
wife the 26 of Apriil, her crisome and her offeringe, ihd. ; Nickeles
Whittocke unto Allse Wilsone the 28 of Apriil. her offeringe, xiid. ;
Wm. Roberts wife churched the 30 ot Apriil. her crisome, 6d., her
offeringe, ob. qa. ; one churched the seconde of Maye, \\\d. ; Rychard
Hopkines wife churched the 2 of Apriil, her crisome, WWd., her offeringe,
\d.\ Rychard Summeres wife churched the 12 of Maye, her crisome, (ni.,
her offeringe, id. ; Thomas Pitmane his wife churched the 21 of Maye.
her crisome, i2r/.. her offeringe, 3.V. ; John Perkines unto Allse Baker
the 29 of Maye, lis. xid. ; Steven Taubetes wile churched the firste of
June, her crisome, he offeringe, 3d. qa. ; Rychard Spanders wife
churched the S of June, her crisome, 6(/.. her offering, 2d.; Edward
Millse wife the 8 of June, her crisome, 6d., her offeringe, 2d.: Harrie
Garles wife the 8 of June, her crisome, 6d., her offeringe, 2d.: Rychard
Caries wife churched the 15 of June, her crisome, 6d.. her offeringe,
\\d. ; Antonie VVickes wife churched the 17 of June, her crisome, ~d..
her offeringe, afed. ; Wm. Thorleyes wife churched the 18 of June, her
crisome, 6d.t her offeringe, 6d.: Rychard Credes wife the 22 of June, her
crisome. 6d., her offeringe, id. ; Robert Smithes wife churched the
23 of June, her crisome, 6d.. her offeringe, id. ; Nickeles Taubetes wife
churched the 23 of June, her crisome, 6d., her offeringe, 2d. Sum,
xxikv. ob.
Recknyd and cleryd, Raffe Rugely for this Reckninge the 28 June
15S0, Robert Bowes.
Edmund R. Nevill.
(To be continued.)
THE NOBILITY AND GENTRY OF WILTSHIRE, 1673.
The following list is taken from the well-known Britannia,
a tine thick folio, consisting of 50 1 pages, printed in London,
"by Tho. Roycroft for the Undertaker, Richard Clonic,
mdclxxiii". This work, dedicated to Charles II, has been
described, I think somewhat unjustly, "as a most entire piece
of theft out of Camden and Speed", for in the preface the
writer says, "I do not own myself the Author but the Under-
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Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
taker of this lVorkt it receiving Birth from divers Manuscripts,
from all Books yet extant that the)' writ of the same subject,
as well in general as in particular, and from some hundreds of
experienced persons in the several parts of this Kingdom ot
England, who have freely contributed their assisting hands in
promoting the same", etc.
After this preface succeed twenty-live pages containing
812 coats-of-arms (numbered with an alphabetical index)
under which are written the names of the owners, with a
description of their titles and offices ; there are several other
coats on the maps scattered throughout this work ; all are for
the most part untinctured, and when a coat is tinctured it is
almost always only partial ; all the peers' and bishops' shields
are ensigned with their respective coronets and mitres ; the
King's shield alone bears a crest. All of these Arms (now
being blasoncd in The Genealogist) are those of the "Benefac-
tors & Promoters of this worke".
There is a long account of our county, "no less fertile
then delightful, and enjoying a most sweet and delightful air,
hath delectable hills well clothed with woods and watered
with fresh streams, exceeding fertile in corn and grass, feeding
great flocks of sheep". It relates the now discredited legend-
ary accounts of men, places, and things, and gives short and
somewhat indifferent notices of the following: Salisbury,
Stonehenge, Wilton, Downton ("the sometime habitation of
Beavois of Southampton"), Aniesbury, Hindon, Mere, ("but
at present of little account, by reason of the late damage it
suffered by fire"), Stourton, Westbury, Trowbridge ("situate
on a hill"), Edington, Lavington, Devizes, Bradford, Gastle-
combe, Chippenham, Corsham ("now of mean account, but in
former time the Mansion-house of King ^Etheldred "), Calne,
Marlborough, Auburne, Swindon ("a Town of no largeness"),
Wotton Bassett, Highworth, Cricklade, and Malmesbury.
"There are other Borough towns which have the election of
Parliament men, viz., Ileitsbury, Bedwin Magna, and Luger-
sall."
The Nobility and Gentry of Wiltshire^ 1673.
On the map of Wiltshire are engraved the arms of Lord
Brouncker, which are similar to those of Brouncker of Melk-
sham and Earlstoke, viz., Argent, six pellets, three, lieu, one, a
chief embattled sable? Some of these maps were printed
earlier than the hook, that of England in 1669 ; that of Lon-
don, surrounded by the Arms of sixteen City Companies, is
engraved by Hollar.
Preceding our List of Wiltshire Generosi we print the
Arms of Wiltshire "Benefactors" of the work, and a list of the
Members of Parliament.
1. Aldworth, Richard, of Hinton and Pipard ; and Ruscombe, co.
Berks; Crtisilly-fitchy a chevron between three boars heads
coitped.
2. Ashe, William, of Hatchbury ; and Hatstead, co. Kent: Argent,
two chevrons sable.
3. Ashe, Joseph, Bt.f of Dowuton ; and Twickenham, co. Midx. ;
Ashe (2), badge of Ulster.
4. Coventrey, John, K.B., of Mere; Sable, a Jess ermine between
three crescents.
5. Cecil, Earl of Salisbury and Viscount Cranborne, etc. ; Barry 0/
ten azure and argent, over all six escochcons j, /, sable, each
charged with a lion rampant of the first.
6. Ernle, Edward, of Asiilington ; On a bend three eagles displayed.
7. Ernle, John, Kt., of Buriton ; Ernle (6).
8. Eox, Stephen, Kt., of Water Eaton ; first Clerk of the Green
Cloth and Paymaster General ; Ermine on a chevron three
fox's heads erased, on a canton a flcur-de-lys.
9. Howard, Robert, Kt., of Vastenie; principal Secretaty to Lord
Clifford, Lord High Treasurer of England ; On a. bend between
six crosscs-crosslct Jilehy an cscochcon charged with a dcmi-lion
rampant pierced through the mouth by an arrow, a double ires-
sure Jlory counterflory.
10. HUNGERFORD, Edward, K.B., of Farley Castle; Sable, two bars
argent, in chief three plates.
11. MASKELYNE, Nevill, of I'm ton; A fess engrailed between three
escallop* shells.
12. Methwen, Rani, of Bradtord; and London; On the breast of an
imperial eagle three wolfs heads couped.
1 Lord Brounckcr's Arms also occur amongst those of the "Under-
takers", as do also, differenced with a crescent, those of Henry Brouncker, of
UoumboM, co. Sussex, ami Brockriish, co. Norfolk.
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Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
13. Packer, John, Ph. D., ot Chilton Foliat ; A eross lozengy between
four roses, a mullet for difference.
14. Popham, Francis, K.B., of Littlecot ; On a chief two buck's heads
cab o shed.
15. Reddish, Edmond, of Maiden Bradley; A lion rampant.
16. St. John, Walter, Bt.. of Lydiard Tregoze; Argent, on a chief
two mullets, a crescent fur difference, badge of I Yslcr.
17. Seymour, William, Duke of Somerset, etc. ; Or. on a pile three
lions passant guardant between six Jleurs-de-lys. impaling, (sic)
Two wings conjoined in lure.
18. Seymour, Edward. P.C., of Maiden Bradley; Speaker of the
Mouse of Commons : SEYMOUR (17).
19. THYNNE, Thomas, of Longleat, 1 and 4, Harry of ten ; 2 and 3, A
lion rampant, Boteville.
20. Weld, John, Kt., of Compton Bassett; A /'ess nebuly between
three crescents ermine.
Earl of Essex. Lord Lieutenant.1
Wiltshire, Henry,
bury.
Wilton. Sir John Birkenhead and
Sir Thomas Mompesson.
Iliudou, Sir George Grubham-
How, Bt.. and Edward Sey-
mour.
Heyteshtry, John Jolliffe and
William Ash.
Devizes, Edward Lewis and Geo.
Johnson.
Malmcsbury, Sir Edward Poole
and Philip Howard.
Bcdwin Magna, Sir John Trevor
and Henry Clerke.
Old Sarum, Sir Eliab Harvey and
Edward Nicholas.
Marlborough, John, Lord Sey-
M embers or Parliament.
Lord Corn-
mour (now Duke of Somerset)
and Daniell.
Salisbury, Thomas Thinn and Sir
Stephen Fox.
Downton, Sir Joseph Ash, Bt., and
Gilbert Raleigh.
Wcstbury, Richard Lewis and
T nomas W ancklen .
Calne, William Duckett and Geo.
Lowe.
Chippenham, Sir Edward 1 lunger-
ford, K.B.,and 1 lenry Bay n ton.
Cricklade, Sir George Hungerford
and Sir John Ernely.
I .udgershall, William Ashburn-
ham and Thomas Grey.
Woottou Basset, Sir Walter St.
John. Bt., and John Pleydall.
George Ail iff", of Grittenham, Esq.
Rich. Aldworth, of Hinton-Pipard,
Esq.
Nobility and Gentry.
Th
Right Honorable Henry
Arundel, Baron Arundel, of
Wardour-Castle, etc.
1 What connexion had he with the county ?
The Nobility and Gentry of Wiltshire, 1673. 29
Sir Joseph Ash, of Downton, Bt.
Samuel Ash, of Langley-Burwel,
Esq.
William Ash, of Hatchbury, Esq.
John Ash, of Fifield, Esq.
John Aubery, of Ohalke, Esq.
Sir Echvard Bainton, of Brem-hill,
Kt.
The Right Honorable Charles
Earl of Barkshire, Viscount
Andover, and Baron Howard,
of Charleton, etc.
Thomas Baskervile, of Rickard-
sou, Gent.
John Bayly, of Winfield, Esq.
Thomas Bennet, of Salthorp, Esq.
John Bennet, of Westbury and
Norton, Esq.
George Bond, of Ogbourne. St.
George, Esq.
John Bowles, of Barcomb, Esq.
Richard Bowles, ofldmiston, Esq.
Seymour Bowman, of New Sarum,
Esq .
The Right Honorable William
Lord Viscount Brouncker, of
Lyons, and Baron Brouncker,
of Newcastle, in Ireland, etc.
William Brouncker, of Earlestock.
Richard Browne, of Lockeredge,
Gent.
Walter Buckland, of Downton.
Esq.
Sir Rob. Button, of Tottenham-
Court, Bt.
Oliver Cawly, of Lavington, Esq.
Thomas Chaflin, of New-Sarum.
Esq.
Robert Chaloner, of Roundway,
Esq.
Robert Chaundler, ol Edminston.
Esq.
Henry Chi vers, of Ouemerford,
Esq.
Henry Clarke, of Enford, Esq.
Sir Henry Coker, of Hill-] )evcril, Kt
The Right Honorable .... Hare,
Baron of Colerane, in Ireland,
etc., at Langford.
John Collins, of Chute, Esq.
Henry Cooper, ot Clarendon, Esq.
The Right Honorable Henry Vis-
count Cornbury, eldest son to
the Right Honorable Edward
Earl of Clarendon, etc.
Charles Cottington. of Hunt-hill,
Esq.
Sir John Coventry, ot Mere, K.B.
Jeoffrey Daniel, of St. Margaret's,
Esq.
John Danvers, of Bainton, Esq.
Richard Davie, of New Sarum.
Esq.
William Ducket, of Hartham, Esq.
John Duke, of Lake, Esq.
Andrew Duke, of Bulford, Esq.
Sir Walter Ernie, of Itchill-Hamp-
ton, Bt.
Sir John Ernie, of Buriton, Kt.
Edward Ernie, of Itchill-Hampton,
Esq.
Sir Thomas Escourt, of Pinckney,
Kt., one of the Masters in
Chancery.
Richard Escourt, of Newton, Esq.
Sir John Evelyn, ofDeane, Kt.
William Eyre, of Weston. Esq.
Giles Eyre, of Brickworth, Esq.
Samuel Eyre, of Whit-parish. Esq.
John Eyre, ofChalfield, Esq.
John Fisher, of Chute, Gent.
Ralph Freake, of Hannington,Esq.
Gawen, of Harcott, Esq.
Benjamin Giflford, of Boreham,
Esq.
William Glanvile, of Broad-
Hinton, Esq.
Edward Goddard, of Stauden, Esq.
Thomas Goddard. of Swindon,
Esq.
Edward Goddard, of Ogboi ne, Esq.
Richard Goddard, ofClatford, Esq.
3°
Wiltshire Notes and (J i /cries.
Thomas Gore, of Alderton Esq.
Richard Green, of Mere, Esq.
Morice Green, of New-Sarum,
Gent.
John Hall, oi Bradford, Esq.
Richard Harison, of ...... Esq.
Th. Hawkes, of the ("lose, in
New-Sarum, Es<j.
William Hearst, of the same. Esq.
John Fitzherbert, of Lackington,
Esq.
John Hippesley, of Stanton, Ksq.
Jo. Holt, of the Close, in Xew-
Sarum, Esq.
Edward Horton. of Chaldfield. Esq.
Sir Robert Howard, of Yasterne,
Kt., Principal Secretary to the
Rt. Hon. Thomas Clifford,
Lord High Treasurer of
England.
Edward Howard, of Urchfount,
Esq.
Philip Howard, of , Esq.
Sir George Grubham-Howe, of
Old-Barwick, Baronet.
Sir Rich. Grubham-How, of Wish-
ford, Kt.
Sir Geor. Hungerford, of Cadden-
ham, Bt.
Sir Edward Hungerford. of Farley-
Castle, K.B.
Henry Hungerford, of Standen,
Esq.
Thomas Hungerford, of Blackland,
Gent.
Edward Hyde, of Hatch, Esq.
Sir Rob. Jason, ol Broad-Somer-
ford, Bt.
Geo. Johnson, of Barist.-
at-Law.
William Jordan, of Whitley, Esq.
William Joyce, of Xew-Sarum.
Gent."
Sir Thomas Joy, of Mamesbury, Kt.
George Joy, of Hull-La vington,
Esq.
William Kent, of Boscombe, Esq.
Thomas Keylvvay, of Week, Gent.
Thomas Lambert, of Boyton, Esq.
William Levet, of Swinden, Escj.
Richard Lewis, of Eddington, Esq.
Sir Walter Long, of Whaddon, Bt.
James Long, of Draycott, Esq.
John Long, ofChiverel, Esq.
The Rt. Hon. Will. Earl of Malmes-
borough, Baron Ley, of Ley.
etc.
Nevil Masculine, of Purton, Esq.
Paul Methuen, of Bradford, Gent.
Thomas Michel 1, of Milton, Gent.
Edward Midlecott. of Warminster,
Gent.
Sir Thomas Mompesson, of the
Close, in New Sarum, Kt.
Tho. Mompesson, of Cocton, Esq.
John .Mompesson, of Tidworth,
Esq.
Sir Thomas Nicholas, of Not-
combe, K.B., one of the Clerks
of the Privy Council.
Oliver Nicholas, of Alborne, Esq.
John Packer, of Chilton-Foliat,
Dr. in Phys.
Richard Paulet, of Cottles, Esq.
The Rt. Hon. Will. Earl of Pem-
brokeand Montgomery, Baron
Herbert of Cardiff. Ross oi
Kendale, Parr, Marm ion, St.
Ouintaine, and Shurland, etc.
Sir Jo. Penruddock, of ..... Kt.
.... Penruddock, of Esq.
Robert Philips, of Esq.
Sir Seymour Pile, ot Axford, Bt.
Tho. Pile, of Baverstock, Esq.
John Pleydall, of Mudy-hill, Esq.
Sir Edward Pool, ofOaksey, Kt.
Philip Pool, of Dunington, Esq.
Sir Fr. Popham, of Littlecote, K.B.
Gilbert Rawleigh, of Downton,
Esq.
Edmond Reddish, of Maiden-
Bradley, Gent.
Peculiars of the Dean and Chapter o/Sarum.
3«
Sir Walt. St. John, of Lydiard-
Tregoze, Bt.
Sir John St. Loe. of Kt.
The Right Hon. James Earl of
Salisbury, Vise. Cranborne.
Baron Cecil, oi Essendon. etc.
Scroop of Castle-combe, Esq.
The Right Hon. Francis Seymour.
Baron Seymour, of Trou-
bridge, etc, at Marlborough.
Edward Seymour, of Maiden-
Bradley, Esq.
The Rt. Noble John Duke of
Somerset, Marquess and Earl
of Hartford. Vise. Beauchamp,
and Baron Seymour, etr., at
Tottenham-Park, Easou, eic.
Richard Southby. of Somerford-
Canel, Esq.
Sir Hugh Speake, of Haselbury, Bt.
Joseph Stockman, of Down ton,
Esq.
Jo. Stephens, of the Close, in Xew-
Sarum, Esq.
The Rt. Hon. William Stourton.
Baron Stourton, of Stourton,
eic.
Ralph Stowel, of-Awbery, Esq.
N\ illiani Swanton, of Salisburv.
Esq.
Laurence Swanton, of the Close,
in Xew-Sarum, Esq.
Sir John Talbot, of Laieock, Kt.
Thomas Thinn, of Long-Leat,
Esq.
William Thinn, of Mounton,
Esq.
Alexander Thistlethwaite, of Win-
ters! o\v, Esq.
Sir Giles Tooker, of Maidington,
Bt.
Jo. Topp, ot Stockton, Esq.
Henry Trenchard. of Esq.
Anthony Trotman, of Bishopston,
Gent.
Henry Wall is, of Troubridge, Esq.
Edmond Warnford, of Sevin-
Hampton, Esq.
Edmond Webb, of Rodborne-
Cheney. Esq.
Sir ]o. Weld, of Compton-Bassct,
Kt.
Ephraim Westley, of Whitcliff,
Esq.
Sir Boulthood Whitlock, of
Chi'.tou-Park, Kt.
Wiliiam Willoughby, of Knoyle.
Esq.
Christopher Willoughby, of
Bishopston, Esq.
Windham, of Xorrington, Esq.
Francis Wroiighton, of Wilcott,
Esq.
John Young, ofDurnford, Esq.
PECULIARS OF THE DEAN AND CHAPTER OF
SARUM.
There are a number of Visitation Books, dating; from 1600,
mainly composed of Citations. Visitations, and Faculties, but
amongst these are a good many scattered Allegations as well.
The earliest Allegation is dated June 6, 1629, and there are
also notes on Probate of Wills. The Bonds do not begin till
3^
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
1638, and are in bundles. No. 1 consists of two rolls, (1)
1638 to 1640; (2) 1640 to 1645.
There are a number of small seals affixed to the Bonds,
many of which are simply office seals, such as a star, a lion
rampant, a pelican in its piety, a fretty device, a ragged staff
between two leaves, a branch fruited, anchor, etc. ?>Iany of
the Lyme Regis Bonds are sealed with merchants' marks, e.g.,
"T. H." between a cross on a triangle, and a circle in the
middle of the cross. Angels also occur, and the stars arc
extremel}' varied in shape. The usual size is half-an-inch in
diameter, and besides these there are a number of private
armorial seals, some well preserved, others not. Some, too,
of these have been used for several Bonds, which would
imply that they were the coat of someone attached to the
Dean's Court. The names of the witnesses to the Bonds
vary; man)' are the official witnesses, but there are also a
large number which contain the names of local witnesses, and
which are, for that reason, of considerable interest to the local
antiquary. 1 have transcribed all of these I found.
The .valuable Bishops' Allegations are being printed by
the writer in the current numbers of The Genealogist, and it is
hoped that by the concurrent issue of the Peculiars Courts
that they will all be finished in measurable time.
Jennings, Robert & Ellen [ J, married at Pad worth,
Berks, by Mr. Mobson, with neither Licence nor Banns;
25 Dec. 1600.
Fowler, Mr. John, of Little Woodford, Wilts, clerk, 27,
& Elizabeth Body, of the same, wid., 43 ; 6 June 1629.
Burke, Wm., of Caundle Marsh, Dorset, 35, & Mary
Lovelace, of Halstocke, sp., 29 ; 7 June.
Ballard, Stephen, the elder, of Ramsbury, 70, <$: Mary
Bradford, of the same, sp., 30; B'dman, Thomas Ncalc, of
the same ; 23 June.
Smith Henry, 64, & Dorothy Clarke, 50, of Merc, Wilts ;
30 July.
Peculiars of the Dean and Chapter ofSarum. 33
GofTe, Willm., of Over Compton, Dorset, husb., 26, &
Agnes Simsonnc, sp., 26 ; 30 July.
Sterr, Peter, of Bradford Abbas, Dorset, gent., 23, & Alice
Hartwell, of Long Burton, 21 ; B'dman, Willm. Mastors, of
Bradford Abbas ; 7 Sep.
Carr, Thomas, of Hungerford, Berks, husb., 24, & Agnes
Popejoy, of the same, sp., 24 ; 8 Oct.
Davies, Thomas, of Calne, Wilts, wid., 50, & Catherine
Melsomc, of Iluddington, Wilts, sp., 24 ; 12 Oct.
Jerratt, Andrew, of Beaminster, Dorset, husb., 32, &
Petronell Sargeant, of the same, 32 ; W., Robert Jerratt,
fa. ; 12 Oct.
Gilmore, Tymothie, of Ramsbury, gent., 23, & Anne
Waldron, of the same, sp., 23 ; W., John Gilmore, Timothy's
fa. ; 13 Oct.
Browne, Thomas, of Warminster, Wilts, 26, \vid.,& Grace
Fr3?er, of Mere, sp., 2S ; 15 Oct.
Nash, John, of the Close, Sarum, gardner, 35, & Margaret
Hanam, of the same, sp., 30; 26 Oct.
Gillowe, William, of West Harnham, wid., 37, & Margarett
Farmer, of West Deane, 34 ; 4 Nov.
Durrant, George, of Stalbridge, Dorset, husb., 26, &
Elizabeth Collier, of Folke, Dorset, 24 ; 17 Nov.
Norris, William, of Bishopston, Wilts, husb., 25, & Anne
Harding, als. North, of the same, sp., 20 ; 22 Nov.
Rideout, Ambrose, of Sherborne, Dorset, husb., 24, &
Rose Hoffe, of the same, sp., 22 ; 11 Dec.
Blake, Cutbcrt, of Tockenham, Wilts, husb., 25, & Alice
Hawkens, of the same, sp., 24 ; 16 Dec.
Tyler, Joseph, of Cherril, Wilts, husb., 24, & Mary
Browne, of the same, 24 ; 21 Dec.
1629/30.
Gilmore, John, of Rudge, in Froxfield, Wilts, gent., &
Joane Loveden, of Ramsbury, sp., 32 ; B'dman, Robert
Godwin, of Cerne Abbas, Dorset, bro'-in-law to John
D
34
Gihnorc ; licence desired by Edward Gilmore, fa. of John;
14 Jan. 1629/30.
Taylor, Wm., of Mynty, co. Gloc, gent., 30, & Penelope
Loveden, of Ramsbury, sp., 34 ; B'dman, Robert Godwin,
as above ; 14 Jan.
Cockcy, Leonard, of Sarum, Apothecary, 27, & Anne, d.
of Wm. Rickets, of Chinte, Wilts, 22; 1 Feb.
Jacob, Wm., of Mere, Wilts, lynnen weaver, is, & Agnes
Meade, of the same, sp., 18; 2 Feb.
Whitemarshe, Willm., the younger, of Combe Bisset,
Wilts, yeo., 24, & Alee Whitemarshe, of the same, sp., 30 ;
2 Feb.
Hill, Felix, of Gillingham, Dorset, carpenter, 43, wid., &
Mary Badbury, of Mere. Wilts, sp., 40 ; 18 Feb.
Michell, Willm., of Sherborne, Dorset, shoemaker,
wid., 40, & Catherine Devenishe, of the same, sp., 32;
21 Feb.
1630.
Mull ins, George, of Shapwick, Dorset, dio. Bristol,
yeo., 22, & Mary Hussey, of the Close, Sarum, sp., 24 ;
29 Mar.
Doleman, John, of Castletoune [sic], in Sherborne, gent.,
27, & An Elland, of the same, sp., 28 ; 1 Apr.
Forward, John, of Mere, Wilts, lynnen weaver, 24, &
Dorothy Huett, of the same, sp., 20 ; 18 Apr.
Pymme, George, of Marty ns, in the liberties of West-
minster Chaundler, 27, & Magdalene Rideout, of Sherborne,
Dorset, sp., 30 ; 15 Apr.
Blanchard, Mr. Michaell, of Clifton Maybank, Dorset, 32,
& Mrs. Elizabeth Strowde, of Ryme Intrinseca, wid. ;
B'dman, Richard Morris, of Clifton Maybank ; 27 Apr.
Romayne, Nicholas, of Sherborne, Dorset, yeo., wid., &
Joan Punfold, of the same, sp., 20 ; 17 May.
Bateman, Robert, of Devizes, Wilts, gent., 22, & Mary
Comber, of Chetnoll, in Yetminster, Dorset, 16 ; 19 May.
Hooper, Robert, of Costlie [Corsley], Wilts, wid., cV
Peculiars of the Dean and Chapter of Sarum. 35
Patience Care, of Heytesbury, sp., 26 ; B'dman, Mathew
Walter, of the same ; 4 June.
Veisey, Robt, of Chimney, Co. Oxon, gent., & Anne, d. of
Mr. Adam Blithe, of Ogbornc St. George, Wilts, clerke ;
6 June.
Ingram, Richard, of Fordington, Dorset, yco., 28, & Joane
Ford, ah. Syraes, of Charm inster, sp., 24 ; 3 July.
Chapman, Roger, of Haydon, yeo., 40, & Fayth Yongc,
of the same, sp., 30 ; 22 July.
Randall, Nicholas, of Lillington, Dorset, hush., 30, &
Joane Flamberd, of the same, sp., 20 ; 4 Aug.
Browne, Bartholomew, of Calnc, 22, & Elizabeth Godwin,
of the same, 24 ; B'dman, Thomas Godwin, of the same,
Elizabeth's fa.
Bennett, John, of Netherhaven, yeo., 25, & Mary Bach,
of the same, sp., 33 ; 30 Aug.
Phillamor, Phineas, of Netherhaven, Wilts, husb., 25, &
Bridgctt Hatchman, of the same, wid., 32 ; 6 Sept.
Polland, William, of Bedwin Magna, Wilts, yeo., 23, &
Grace Greet, of the same, sp., 22 ; 15 Sept.
New, Robert, of Bachampton [? Bathamptonj, Wilts,
husb., 22, & Anne, a/s. Agnes, d. of Thomas Smith, of
Ogborne St. Andrew, 23 ; 12 Oct.
Evans, William, of Chiute, Wilts, yeo., 24, & Elizabeth
Fox, of the same, sp., 18 ; 16 Oct.
Browne, Peter, of Netton, in Durnford Magna, husb., 33,
& Edith I lulctt, of the same, sp., 33 ; 17 Oct.
Hatherly, Nicholas, of Charminster, Dorset, gent., 22, <S:
Jane Butler, of the same, sp., 25 ; 28 Oct.
Payntcr, Symon, husb., of Ogbornc St. George, 30, &
Susan Browne, of the same, sp., 24; B'dman, John Sweet,
of Marlborough ; 31 Oct.
Willis, Symon, of Wintcrborne Kingston, Dorset, husb.,
24, & Priscilla Speires, of Bere Regis, sp., 24 ; 7 Dec.
Savery, Anthony, of Highworth, baker, 24, & Mary Shcp-
perd, of the same, sp., 22 ; Mary lives with her aunt; 10 Dec.
d 2
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Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Wood, Anthony, of Sherborne, Dorset, 26, & Elioner
Willis, of the same, sp., 25. Parents consent on condition
that he leaves off his service and follows his trade.
Randall, Tho., of Netherhampton, Wilts, yeo., 46, &
Elioner Miller, of West Harnham, sp., 22 ; 22 Dec.
Banwell, Edward, of Sherborne, Dorset, wid., 46, & Rose
Dyer, of Woborne, Dorset, wid., 46; 22 Dec.
1630/ 1.
Parker, John, of Bradford, Wilts, clothier, 28, & Ann
Franklyn, of Calne, Wilts, wid. ; B'dman, John Browne, of
Bradford, clothier; 11 Jan.
Jennings, John, of Yeovell, co. Somerset, gen., 33, cV
Elizabeth Thayne, of the Close, Sarum, 22 ; 24 Jan.
Bennett, John, of Burbage, Wilts, tayler, 24, & Francis
Person, of the same, sp., 23; B'dman, Andrew Roberts, of
Sarum, tayler ; 24 Jan. , ;
Dabyc, Robert, of Abbasanne [Abbots Anne], co. South',
30, & Anne Griffin, of Chiute, WTilts, sp., 20 ; 15 Feb.
Plott, Robert, of Burbage, Wilts, 30, & Joane Heyes, of
Chisbury, sp., 22 ; 16 Feb.
Hellear, Edward, of Sturton, Wilts, tanner, 23, & Alee
Barnes, of Mere, Wilts, sp., 25 ; iS Feb.
Wilcox, William, of Bere Regis, Dorset, yeo., 26, &
Christian Clench, of the same, sp., iS; 18 Feb.
Hunt, Thomas, of Calne, 20, & Alice Gent, of the same,
sp., 20 ; 5 Mar. Edmund Nevill.
(7b be continued.)
OLD WILTSHIRE CUSTOMS.
The explanation of many customs, the meaning of which
has long been lost and forgotten, lies in the interpretation ot
ancient myths and folk-lore tales, about which much has
lately been written.
Old Wiltshire Customs.
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Practices still in use in Wiltshire can thus be traced back
to heathen myths, showing continuity of thought and the
deathlessness of ideas once deeply rooted in the human mind,
customs which are now observed either from superstitious
dread of evil attending their neglect ; or from a feeling of
reverence for what our ancestors did before us, but in ignor-
ance of what the custom originally mean:.
These two characteristic ways of thought have been
taken by Mr. L. Gomme (in his Eti.uolo^v of Folk-Lore) as in-
dicating two different races of men, shown by their different
ways of regarding the spirits of the departed : —
1. — Venerating their ancestors.
2. — Fearing them as evil spirits, fairies, or goblins, etc.
The Wiltshire practice of telling the dees when a death
occurs in the family, is an instance of a survival in practice
of a custom which has lost its meaning.
The bees were the providers of the sacred mead, the
tood best beloved by the gods, and consequently they were
greatly in their favour; so when a death took place it was
tnose "little winged messengers of the gods" that were at
once sent off to warn them to expect and prepare for the
arrival of the new coiner, "their one desire being to procure a
-ate and speedy passage of the soul to spirit-land, or as it i>
put in modern folk-lore, lest the devil should gain power over
the dead person". — (L. Gomme, Ethnology oj Folk-Lore.)
Other Bee myths are still believed in, in Wiltshire ; Mich
as :
1. — They can foretell weather changes sooner than we
can.
2. — They foretell death, by the swarm alighting on dead
wood.
3. — They bring good luck by alighting on live wood.
4. - -They awake at midnight on Christmas Eve and
hum loudly in their hives to salute the new-born
king.
WiltsJiire Notes and Queries.
The superstition connected with the swarm alighting on
dead or live wood, ma}' be illustrated by the " Tree of Life or
Immortality", which occurs in so many mythologies, such as
in the following Polynesian story: — "The dead assemble on a
huge tree with dead and living branches, and only those who
tread on the living branches come back to life." — (Maccullock
in The Childhood of Fiction.)
W. A. Cox, in Notes c Queries, 3c r. X, viii, 329, says
in the Greek Anthology^ vii, 717 (xi, 8, in Mr. Mackail's
selection) is a poem, by an unknown author, on the death of a
bee master, in which the words Htell it to the bees"1 occur; and
in a letter to me he calls attention to the " JEtherics haustusn%
the divinely imparted knowledge, or capacity for it, implied by
Virgil in the Bee Georgic. T. S. M.
WILTSHIRE SUPERSTITIONS.
A well-known clergyman in Wiltshire has given me two
interesting ones. lie was born in Cambridgeshire many
years ago, and lived with his father, who was also a clergy-
man in that part, lie tells me that wart charming existed in
that parish, and has given me the following description :
"The woman who possessed this power was of a respectabli
farmer family, and not, as she should be, old and haggard.
My friend's sister had warts on her hands, and she went to
the charmer, who took her hands and muttered >omc incanta-
tion over them, and the warts absolutely died away." The
second one is: - "That it is very unsatisfactory to kill |
during a waning moon, as the bacon is no good to the house-
wife in her household, as it wastes in the frying."
John Benett-Stanford.
[*' White Witchery " we believe to be prevalent all ovei
the world. The late Mr. William Will-hire, for nearly sixty
years parish clerk at Seend, was reputed to possess this gift
of charming away waits, sprains, thorns, etc., and to have
Proof of Age of Richard dc Loucrai. 39
healed many persons, some of whom would come from quite a
distance; his son, the present clerk, is said to inherit the gift.
I do not think that the)- used an (at any rate audible) incanta-
tion. We understand that the gift is lost if money be given
for the cure, if the secret be revealed, except at the time of
death, or if the charm, or whatever it may be, wrapped up in
parchment, be lost. — Ed.]
PROOF OF AGE OF RICHARD DE LOUERAZ.
The following translation of a "Proof of Age" may not be
uninteresting by reason of the careful manner in which the
witnesses were examined. I take it that the family name of
the heir would now be spelt Loveridge. My reason for
printing it is to see if anyone can identify Haldeway with
some existing parish. That there is no mistake as to the
county is proved by an Inquisition ad Quod Damnum
[I. P.M., S Ed. Ill, No. 47 (2nd Nos.)], from which it appears
that Stephen Loueraz owned "the rent of a messuage and a
carucate of land with the appurtenance^ in Haldeway, in
co. Wilts, which is held of the Abbot of Hyde, by Winchester,
for the yearly service of u/." Stephen was the uncle and
heir of the Richard of the Coram Rege Roll.
John Dyke.
Proof or Age of Richard de Loueraz.
[Coram Rege Roll, no. /./0, M.34. Michaelmas zjt Edward /.]
(In the quintaine of St. Martin.)
Wilts.— This sheriff ' was ordered that— because Richard de Loueraz,
son ;md heir of John de Loueraz, deceased, who hold of the king in
chief, says lie is of full age and seeks of the king lauds and tenements,
which are of his heritage now in the Custody of William de Bynteworth
until the lawful age of the heir of the same John by commission of the
king, to be returned to him— wherefore the lord king wills that foresaid
Richard, who was born at Ha1dewey,ii1 foresaid county, and baptized in
church of same village, as it is said, prove ins age, etc.; to make conic
before the king (coram Rege), etc., all such, etc., of foresaid county
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Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
by whom that proof could be inade and the truth of foresaid ape c»u'.d
be better known and inquired of. And to make known to fore .
William, etc., that he should be before the king, etc., to show if for
himself he have or know anything to say wherefore foresaid lands and
tenements ought not to be returned to foresaid Richard as to him who
is of full age, etc. And now comes foresaid Richard and said he is ol
full age, and sought lands and tenements which are of his heritage, to
be returned to him, etc. And the witnesses of the prool came, etc
And foresaid William came hither into the King's Court and said that
foresaid Richard was of full age. etc.. and well allowed that proof of
age of same Richard should be admitted, and the lands and tenements
returned to him. Therefore foresaid probation is taken, etc.
William de Stokes, who is of the age of 40 years and more,
dwelling at 5 leagues from foresaid village of Haldewey, swears and
diligently examined says, upon his oath, that foresaid Richard will be
of the age of 22 years between feasts of Christmas and Purification ol
the B. Virgin Mary next coming. Asked how he knows this, says that
Herbert de Stokes, father of foresaid William, died at Easter in the
8th year of the king now, and at that time foresaid Richard was six
years old and more.
William Gilberd, of the age of 45 years, dwelling tit 4 leagues from
foresaid village ot Haldewey, swears and diligently examined agrees
with foresaid William about age of toresaid Richard. Asked how he
knows this, he says that Gilbert, father of William, himself died at the
feast of All Saints" next before the birth of the foresaid Richard in the
same year, from the time of which death, from the feast of All Saints"
this year past, are twenty-two years elapsed, etc. He says also that he
'himself first saw foresaid Richard now 15 years ago, and then foresaid
Richard was of the age of about seven years, and that this he knows
from report of many of the country.
Richard Couervaunt, of the age of 50 years and more, dwelling at
3 leagues trom the foresaid village of Haldewey, swears and diligently
examined agrees with the others about age ot lore-aid Richard.
Asked how he knows this, he says that he was in service then of lord
Matthew de Columbres, in tin.' parish where foresaid Richard was
born, at the time when foresaid Richard was born, and says that a
certain Richard de Porteseye, knight, god-father to foresaid Richard, on
the same day on which he lifted Richard himself from the sae'red font,
eat with foresaid Matthew his lord, and tins he there related. 1-y
which it is well certain that foresaid Richard is of foresaid age.
Geoffrey Drues, of the age of 50 years, living at 2 leagues from
foresaid village of Haldewey. swears and diligently examined agrees
with the others about age of foresaid Richard. Asked how In- knows
this, he says that he himsclt has a certain brother, Stephen by name,
who married his wife the same year in which foresaid Richard was
born, and there are passed from that time about iwcnty-twci years, ami
Proof of Age o f Richard dc Loueraz
41
lhat he himself was present at purification of foresaid Richard's
mother.
Symon de la Frith, of the age of 50 years, dwelling at 2 leagues within
Ion-said village of Haldevvey, swears and diligently examined swears
and agrees with foresaid William and the others about age of fore-
said Richard. Asked how he knows this, he says that he himself has a
certain brother, John by name, who was born between the feasts of
St. Nicholas and Christmas, next before birth of foresaid Richard, who
will be between the same feasts next coming twenty-two years, etc.
Jno de Kephyll, of the age of 40 years, dwelling 3 leagues from
foresaid village of Haldewey, swears and diligently examined agrees
with the others about age of foresaid Richard. Asked how he knows
this, he says that the father of Jno himself died in the same year in
which foresaid Richard was born, from the time of which death 22 years
are past, etc.
Nicholas Dismars, of the age of 60 years, dwelling at 3 leagues
from foresaid village of Haldewey, swears and diligently examined
agrees with the others about age of foresaid Richard. Asked how he
knows this, he says that he had a certain son, John by name, who is
dead, and who was born in the same year as foresaid Richard, who
would have been of the age of 22 years if he had lived, and that a
certain Claricia, who suckled foresaid Richard, suckled also foresaid
John, his son, etc.
Reginald Way, of the age of 50 years, dwelling at 6 leagues from
loresaid village of Haldewey, swears and diligently examined agrees
with the others about age of loresaid Richard. Asked how he knows
this, he says that his mother died in the same year in which foresaid
Richard was born, and forthwith after the death of his mother In-
served foresaid John, lather of loresaid Richard, and remained in his
service for three years, and then loresaid John died, from which time
19 years are now elapsed, etc.
William Waryn, of the age of 30 years, dwelling at 5 leagues from
loresaid village of Haldewey, swears and diligently examined agrees
with the others about the age of foresaid Richard. Asked how he
knows this, he says that he has a certain brother, John by name, who
was born in the same year a^ foresaid Richard, who is twenty-two
years old. Questioned how he knows that his brother was born in
same year as foresaid Richard, he says that he knows this by report of
his mother and of many of the country, etc.
Peter Croyleboys, of the age of 30 years, dwelling at half-a-leaglic
liom foresaid village of Haldewey, swears and diligently examined
agrees with the others about age of Ion-said Richard. Asked how he
knows this, he says that he has a certain brother, Thomas by name,
who was born in the same year in which foresaid Richard was born,
and he is of the age of 22 years. He says, also, that John, father ol
foresaid Richard, whose death Ik- well recollects, died now 19 years
42 Wiltshire Note's and Queries.
and then foresaid Richard was of the age of about 3 years as it seemed
to him, etc.
William le Chanberlayn, of the age of 30 years, dwelling at ;
leagues from foresaid village of Haldewey, swears and diligently
examined agrees with the others about age ol foresaid Richard.
Asked how he knows this, he says that he knows this by report ul
Mabill, his mother, who was present when foresaid Richard was bom,
and by report of many of the country, etc.
Philip Sturmi, of the age of 33 years, dwelling 5 leagues from
foresaid village of Haldewey, swears and diligently examined agrees
with the others about age- of foresaid Richard. Asked how he know-;
this, he. says that a certain Margaret, sister ot' Philip himself, was
married in same year in winch foresaid Richard was born, etc. He
says, also, that he knows this by report of the country.
William Lillebon, ol' the age of 30 years, dwelling in parish where
foresaid Richard was born, swears and diligently examined agrees with
the others about age of foresaid Richard, and says that he knows tin-
by report of a certain Peter de lusebury his uncle, and Alisie his sister,
who was married in same year in w hich foresaid Richard was bom,
and also knows it by report of the country.
And because foresaid Richard, sufficiently by foresaid W illiam and
the others, has proved his age, and also it appears by aspect ol
body of Richard himself that he is full age, viz., 21 years, the same
Richard may have seisin of lands and tenements which are of his
heritage, etc.
AN OLD CIB0R1UM.
On February 27th, Mr. Durlacher bought at Messrs.
Christie's, fur ^0,000, a Ciborium, said to have belonged at
one time to Malmesbury Abbey, the property of the late Mi.
Jerdone Braikenridge, of Qevedon ; in 1874 it was exhibited
at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and again in 1S97 at the
Burlington Fine Arts Club, illustrated in colours in the Cata-
logue. What is its pedigree? It is described as follows in
Messrs. Christie's Catalogue: —
A Ciborium of copper-gilt and champleve enamel -7 in. high, 6 ill.
diam. — probably English, 13th century.
The design is arranged to form, both on the cover and the bowl,
six roughly circular medallions enclosing subjects from the Old and
New Testaments. The figures are mostly in engraved gill metal, bill
4;
those pf our Lord, Angels, and the' most sacred persons-, are delicately
enarrfelled, the flesh translucent and of a pale jasper tinge. The
medallions on the cover are on chrysophase green ground with a lilac
o utre, separated by a streak of white ; the cross and some of the
drapery, &c, shaded apple-green, and introducing, in addition, tur-
quoise and lapis blue-. Between the medallions is a conventional
treatment of foliage, in blue shading to white on lapis .mound, but
with regions of black, red or turquoise surrounding ike flowers. The
bowl is treated almost as richly, but with lapis or chrysophase within
the medallions, and a bright turquoise ground outside. On the gill
ribands framing the circles are inscriptions, the letters on the cover
being in black, and on the hi wl scarlet. The knob winch, surmounts
the cover is a flattened sphere similarly enamelled with leafage and
supported by four petals. There are borders round the rims and the
tout, with enamelled designs ■ -r. a o>;d ground. In the interior, on the
cover, is a medallion representing Christ in glory, and another on
the bowl with the Agnus Dei. The subjects depicted on the cover
are: The Nativity, The Circumcision, The Baptism, The Road to
Calvary, The Crucifixion, and The Resurrection. The subjects on the
bowl represent Aaron with the Ark and the rod that budded, The Sacri-
fice of Abel, The Circumcision, Abraham's Sacrifice, The Brazen Ser-
pent, and Samson Fighting the Philistines.
©times,
Heytesbury Seal.— Had the Collegiate Church of Hey-
tesbury any amis ? I think there must have been a seal, but
cannot trace an impression ; the Church is dedicated to SS.
Peter and Paul. I am acquainted with the Borough Seal. 1
am inclined to think that the Deans of Salisbury must have
used the Decanal Seal upon the Heytesbury Collegiate
Church deeds. A. R. Maldkn.
The Close, Salisbury.
Quoit. — Is this word known in Wiltshire, and can any
one explain its meaning as used tor the Cromlech capstones
in Cornwall and Wale-, and to which word a legend is,
appended at the Portisham Cromlech, in Dorsetshire ?
T. S. M.
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William Parsons.— "An abandoned rake named William
Parsons, described as one who had been engaged both in the
army and naval service, returning from transportation, com-
mitted a robbery on Hounslow Heath, and was subsequently
hanged thereon in chains in 1705. He was the son of a
Wiltshire baronet." The above paragraph occurs in a
chapter on "Roads and Travelling", on p. 31 of vol. ii of
England and tlic English in the Eighteenth Century, by
William Connor Sydney. Was there ever a Wiltshire
baronet named Parsons ? If not, can anyone suggest any
reason for such an error in a book published in 1892 ?
John Dvki:.
Rush Knots or Crosses. — I have lately come across the
recollection of a custom, no longer practised in this part ot
Wiltshire, but remembered as having been seen some forty
years ago, of making knots or crosses of rushes or grass; but
I cannot find out anything more about it than that they were
made and thrown down. Similar knots or crosses are made
by the women and children in Ireland at the present day, on
St. Brigid's Day, Feb. 1st, and are hung over their beds and
doors in honour of St. Brigid, and renewed every year ; just as
the fire kept burning in her honour was renewed once a year
at Kildare, on St. Brigid's Day (our Candlemas Day), till put
an end to by the Church in a.d. 1220, as superstitious, and
finally extinguished, after revival, at the Reformation.
In Wales a similar knot was made and called "Cwlvvni
Cariad", which in former days was thrown with a silent wish
into the Sacred Wells.
The history of the Cross or Knot-— whether, as in Wales,
called a "True Lover's Knot" or, as in Ireland, "St. Brigid
Cross", is unknown or forgotten in this part of Wiltshire.
Can anyone rediscover it or any other custom bearing on
these traditions, which apparently have a common origin, and
may belong to Celtic parts of the country, though remembered
even here. T. S. M.
Replies.
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Heel Stone. — As an interpretation of "Heel Stone",
otherwise called the "Sun Stone", over which the rising
midsummer sun is observed at Stonehenge, may I suggest
"Jleol", the Breton name for the sun ? T. S. M.
A Black Figure. — A cousin of mine, a widowed sister of
the late Mr. Richard Walmesley, of Lucknam, desires to find
out where exists (or did exist) the following "adornment " to
some church porch, which she remembers visiting with her
late brother, the Rev. Edward Walmesley, sometime Rector
of Milperton: — "A black figure of a man, over the porch, the
principal entrance; the figure seated, one leg resting on the
other knee, apparently unimpaired — but that was about sixty
vears ago." As my cousin's brother drove her and others to
see this church, he being then at Hilpcrton, the church could
not have been far from that neighbourhood — that is the only
clue I have. S. K. L. Earlk.
Henry Dugdale (vol. v, p. 474).— In his will, dated 1589,
he is described as of Weston, in the parish of Bury Pomery,
co. Devon, gent., where he desires to be buried ; he mentions
lands in Lancashire, inherited from his father, John Dugdalc,
which he bequeaths to his eldest son, George ; among the
overseers are Mr. Edward Seymour, and his three brothers,
John, Christopher, and William Dugdaill ; his wife, Anne, one
of the Executors. Any information as to her, and his descen-
dants would be most acceptable. I believe there are extant
no memorials to this family at Berry Pomeroy. Sack.
Stokes Pedigree (vol. iii, p. 335).— It is understood that
this pedigree is at present in the possession of a member of
the Nelson family, a connexion of that of Stokes, now settled
in New Zealand. T. G. S.
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Y/alter Scott (vol. v, p. 190). — The Wilt-hire friend of Si r
Walter Scott was not Daniel Webb, but his great grandson,
Lord Webb John Seymour baptized at Monckton Farley in
1777, and buried at Ediribffl%h in 1S19 — five years after the
publication of Wavcrley. Both belonged to a social literary
group, who were wont to congregate at Edinburgh through the
winter months for the purpose of mutual intercourse. To
Lord Webb Seymour Sir Walter is said to have been indebted
for several Wiltshire tales, more particularly that of " Wild
Darrell, of Littlecote" — which he has introduced into his well-
known poem of Rokeby. E. K.
Monasticon Wiltonense ( vol. v, p. 239).— Of this volume,
compiled by Sir Richard Colt Hoare, a limited impression was
printed by Mr. Rutter, of Shaftesbury, in 1821. It preceded
the issue of Modern Wiltshire, and was, it is believed, intended
as a guide — so far as the monastic history of the county was
concerned- -to Sir Richard's friends and coadjutors in the com-
pilation of the history of the various Hundreds contained in
that work, which was then in progress. Scriba.
The Registers of Allcannings and Etchilhampton, one
volume, pp. 258 (price £y is.) ; and the Registers ol
Bishops Cannings, one volume, pp. 392 (price £1 in.) ;
demy Svo. Transcribed by Joseph Henry Parry, B.A.,
Barristcr-at-Law, and late Scholar of New College.
Devizes: George Simpson, 1905-6.
In the publication of the^e volumes, each of which con-
tains a complete transcript of Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials,
extending over a period of more than two centuries, including
also a full index of names and places, Mr. Parry has done
good service by thus recording, in a form at once complete
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and easy of reference, the' local genealogy' of two well known
and by no means unimportant Wiltshire parishes. •
The Registers of Allcannings begin in 1579. Here are
entries of no less than four families — Bartlett, Gough, Nicholas
and Provender — whose pedigrees arc recorded in the Herald's
Visitation of 1623, whilst among other names of earlier
parishioners, we note more particularly those of Audrey,
Corderay (also of Chute), Cromwell, Filkes (also of Devizes),
iliscock, Noyes, Parry, Pottinger, Springbatt, Stratton, Swau-
borow, and Typper — some of which aie still well known either
in the village or its immediate neighbourhood. An entry, in
1 6 1 3, records that " all the names above written were delivered
up at the Archbyshope's Visitation at the Devizes", on the 31st
of May in that year. From other occasional memoranda, we
learn also that Robert Byng read himself in as Rector in 1625,
Henry Kinninmond in r66o, and John Fullerton, LL.B., was
inducted in 1770, whilst Mrs. Blanch Lloyd, widow, and Mrs.
Jane Smith (widow of Mr. Michael Smith, formerly Secretary
to Dr. Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1663-77), were the
respective donors of "a fine large damask cloth and napkin",
and "a large fine purple cloth, with a silk fringe" for the Com-
munion Table.
The hamlet of Etchilhampton possessesa separate Register,
beginning at a latter date (1630). Here, among the names of
principal parishioners, are Ernele (sometime lords of the
manor), Bayly (of which family a female member was the
early patroness of Archbishop Laud), Goddard, Merewether,
and Dorchester — two members of which were benefactors to
the village poor. Among the sums collected by Briefs from
1673 to 1699, two items only are of local interest.
1685-. For relict' of the inhabitants >>t Barford, Wilt- 2s.
- For relief of William Knight, of Donhead- is. 2d.
What is the meaning of this, on p. 243
"Jane Smith, Anne Stoodley, Madame Stansteed, we will
all goo a fishing ami met some more of our friends, sonic call
thorn gepses."
48 Wiltshire Nolcs and Queries.
Bishop's Cannings Registers, included in the second of
these volumes, begin in 1591. Here we find Nicholas of Coati
(a younger branch from Roundway), and Weston, also of
Coate and Cannings, the two principal families with recorded
pedigrees in 1623. Other early names are Bayly, Brown,
Calow, Cooke (one at least of whom was "Reeve" of the
Bishop of Salisbury as lord of the manor), Cox (from whom
descended Sir Richard Cox, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, 1706),
Cromwell, Dorchester, Ettry (for several generations the
village carpenters and clock makers), Ernele (lords of the
manor of Bourton), Ncate, Parry, Pound, Ruddle, Shergoll.
Skeate, Sloper, Snell (whose name survives in their old
residence), Stevens and Unwin — which Bishop's Cannings
phraseolog}- has, of course, easily corrupted into "Onion".
From 1653 to 1657 the Marriages were principally before a
Justice of the Peace, after three publications "at close of
morning exercise", or perhaps, as was less agreeable, "in
Devizes Market Place, on three several market days, between
the hours of 12 and 2".
In 1597 Ave find the burial of "three poor walking people",
in 162S of "a travelling soldier", in 1644 of William Collett,
" a soldier dying at Roundway", in 1677 of Philip Hitchcock,
of Westbury, "found dead and killed with cold at Horton,
low down", and in 17 16 of Mary Gray, "a poor widow that
was barbarousl}- murdered".
The Vicar — Thomas Etwell — records that 11 1 did new lay
and point the tiles of my house, and build the kitchen and
chamber chimneys in the year 1663".
Lastly,. on January 8th, 1S1 1, " the organ, the gift of Mr.
William Bayly, was opened, and the organist's pay began the
13th instant, the interest of ^600 for the salary".
E. K.
E STOKES CUP, .MHMvX COLLEGE, OXF
TOtltsfnre Botes anU (Queries,
JUNE, 1908.
STOKES.
(Continued from p. cj.)
[P.C.C. 44 Bolton.]
Will of Richard Stokes, of Calne, 1723.
ULY 2, a d. 1723. Richard Stokes, of Calne, gentleman ;
leaves his body to be buried "in a private and decent manner",
as near his late wife as possible, in the vault in Calne
church belonging to his dwellinghouse, a monument of
^'v^ white marble in his memory to be put lip as near the vault
*•<•' as can be. Whereas, in pursuance of his marriage settlement
with Judith his now wife, he purchased a farm anil lands in
Ogborne St. Andrews, and settled the same to William Kndfield, esq.,
and John Neate and their heirs forever in trust for himself for life, and
after his decease for Judith his wife for life, and after her decease in trusl
for Judith his daughter and her heirs forever, and to such other uses as
are hereafter mentioned ; his will is that, if Judith his wife die in Ins life-
time, or soon after, leaving Judith his daughter unmarried and under the
age of 21 years, his sister-in-law Mrs. Elizabeth Bloome shall have the
sole management and trust, and be the guardian of his daughter Judith
and her fortune until she be 21 or married with her direction and appro-
bation ; all his capital stock in the South Sea Company, with all
increase and interest and title in same, to Judith his wife to hold to her,
her executors, etc., immediately after his death as her own proper goods
forever. Whereas he has made use of £\oo out ol sale of Ins wile s
estate, to her the like sum in hen thereof to In- paid 6 months alter Ins
decease, making all his estate chargeable fOE payment thereof; also to
his said wife all her own goods before marriage with him, all her own
maiden-rings, with three diamond rings, ear-rings, gold watch-chain ami
E
50 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
seale, and several old pieces of gold given to her by himself, and all the
old gold which he shall have by him at his decease ; also his coach and
chariot and harnesses belonging to them, with his best pair of horses;
his chair and his china-ware ; also all household goods and implements
for her life, she to have full power to dispose thereof to his children l>y
liis first wife in such portions as she shall think' fit; also to her his
dwelling-house, with all the outhouses, etc., belonging to it, in Calne.
for her life, with all wood, coal, etc., and liquors in it at the time of his
decease; and after her death the said dwelling-house in Calne to his
brother Samuel Stokes, William Endfield, of Whitley, in the parish of
Calne, esquire, and to John Neate, of Calne, druggett maker, and their
heirs, in trust for his son Richard Stokes for the term of his life, and the
lawful heirs male, of his body, with remainders to the first, second,
third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth son and sun?, but
he shall not have power to mortgage or sell the same, and for lack cl
issue to the eighth heirs of himself (the testator) subject to such entails
as aforesaid; also to his brother Samuel Stokes. William Endfield, and
John Neate the north part of the capital messuage called Stanshawes, in
parish of Yate, co. Gloucester, formerly in possession of Samuel Stokes,
gentleman, his grandfather, with the backside called the Pinning, and
with the orchard where he (Richard) elected a vine frame, and the
several closes called Honyhams and Wickhams, and 2 groves adjoining.
Horsecroft, the wood called Heither or Littlewood, and the wood pad-
dock adjoining Packer's Leaze and the Heither Broad Leaze, and their
appurtenances; to hold to them, the said Samuel Stokes, etc., and heirs
and assigns forever, in trust, and chargeable with the payment of £~oo
to be raised out of the yearly increase or mortgage of the premises for
the uses of his will ; the same to be put out at interest as fast as they
can, first to payoff a legacy of ^500 to his son Richard Stokes, lie to
have the interest of the same for his maintenance ; the other .£200 to be
for other uses appointed in his will ; and after the raising of the said
sum of ^"700, then in trust to use of his son Thomas Stokes for life, only
on condition "that he do reclaime and become a sober man and a goi cl
husband, and marry a wife with a fortune not less than the sum ol 01 e
thousand pounds, bona-Jidc paid to the satisfaction of my said trustees .
and with their approbation, he not to receive the rents and profits ol the
said estate until they have received the same, and lie not to be veste I
or stand seized in any fee of said estate or to have any power to mort-
gage it, and if he attempt to do so he shall not have any of the rents ol
profits, but my Trustees shall then stand seized for tin- use of my son
Richard Stokes ; if Thomas marry as aforesaid a jointure may be made
for his wife out of said estate, which alter his and her decease is t<> be
in trust for the heirs of Ins body, with remainders in tail male down to
the tenth son of said Thomas, and for want of issue to the use of his son
Richard Stokes and his heirs. But if his son Thomas shall not reclaim
and marry a wile with £ 1,000 he bequeaths to him only the sum of £$00
Stokes.
ri satisfaction of a bond wherein he stands bound to him in ,£200 in case
he disinherits him ; the £$00 to be raised for Richard his son in this
case to be void, the estate in the premises being, in the case of the dis-
inheritance of Thomas, in trust lor him, Richard the son, on condition
J e marry a wife of ^"1,000, and under the other conditions aforesaid, and
: 1 be similarly entailed, the said sum of ^500 to Thomas to be paid
half-yearly at, or 2S days after, Feaste of Michailraas and Lady Day,
, ifter his forfeiture of said estate. To daughter Eleanor Stokes annuity
f £y:, payable half-yearly, out of his other estate in Yate and VVapley,
0. Gloucester, and such part of Stanshawes as is not before men-
tioned, viz., the grounds called Ston Leaze. O.d Orchard Whitehorne
Leaze, the further Broad Leaze, Little Can Leaze. Great Can Leaze, and
3 meads called Long Meade, Little Mead, and the further Meade, with
power to said Eleanor to distrain lor said annuity if in arrears; also to
her £20 to be paid 6 months after decease, also his late wife's gold
watch and ruby ring set with small diamonds, and two small ear-rings set
with ore diamond; also her own silver cup with two handles and a
cover, and be delivered to her one month after his decease. To his
brother Samuel Stokes, and William Er.dr.eld, and John Neate the other
part of Stanshawes, called the Barn or Heyhouse Stables, formerly' in
the occupation of Edward Stokes, deceased, father of the testator',
together with the gardens and backsides, and the Great Orchard and the
Red Streake Orchard, and the several closes belonging in the parishes
of Yate and Sodbury and Wapley, ca l led Cro ke's Leaze, Lower Downe
Mouse Leaze, Upper Down House Leaze, with power to work the lime
kiln there for use of my wife, and to demise it to any tenant not exceed-
ing term- of 7 years, as the same is now demised to James White ; the
several closes called Stew Leaze, Old Orchard. Whitborne Leaze, with
part lately converted into arable, the further Broad Leaze, Little
i'addock, which leads from Whitbourne Leaze to Great Can Leaze,
Little Can Leaze, Great Can Leaze, the three meades called Long
Meade. Little Meade, and Further Meade, the lower wood and the
ground called Butneage in the parish of Iron Acton, co. Gloucester, all
which premises are in the several occupations of John Pearse, John
Cla.ke, Thomas Hathway, James White and Edward Clifford or their
assigns; to hold to them in trust with power to demise the premises at
the best profit they can for a term of 7 years; the profits to satisfy the
above said annuity to Eleanor and other sums herein mentioned; the
remainder of rents, after these and his debts are paid, to go to his
wife for life if she remains a widow; and after her decease, to pay
annuity of f\i to his son Charles; with power to his trustees to mortgage
'he last said estate alter his wife's decease, it they find Charles a careful
man capable of exercising any trade f< - the causing of ,£300 to set him
"P. and of ^400 more to his son Richard a::d of /200 to his daughter
Meaner if his estate will bear it ; ail these i wz paid, the profits of his
said estate to go to his son Thomas, and his heirs in tail male under the
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Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
conditions above stated or tailing these to Richard, and his hens in tail
male and tor want of issue to the next heir male entitled to the same;
to his wife all his ready money and moneys duo; also power to let his
coalmines about Stanshawes; to said trustees all his "Vicountill" Rents
or certainty money out of the hundred of Kingsbridge, co. Wilts, pur-
chased of the Countess of Bridgewater in trust for use of Richard Stoke?
his son for life and heirs male of his body to his tenth son, and for lack
of issue to right heirs of testator, with power to make a jointure out ol
the same to Richard's wile it she has a fortune of £\,ooo as aforesaid;
if his trustees advance any sum to his sons, it shall be deducted from
their legacies, and so also in the case- of his daughter, or il he himself
advance her any sum on her marriage. In the case of failure of heirs
male to his sons, the said estate shall descend to an heir female, and
when such heir lemale be married [if] her husband shall not as soon as
he is in possession take the surname of Stokes upon him, and shall in
writing use any other surname than the name of Stokes after his baptis-
mal name, and shall not bear the arms— a lion rampant argent ermin'd
with the tongue and claws red in a field sable, being the present coat ot
Arms of the testator's family; and shall not within a year after such
marriage procure an act of Parliament lor him and the heir female' and
the heirs of their bodies to bear the surname of Stokes and the arms
aforesaid, or give security to do so in the penalty of £10,000 to the next
heir male in the testator's own family, in such ease he gives all Ins
estates to the next heir male in his family, however remote he may be,
and to the heirs male of his body for ever. 1 lis father Lambert's picture
set in gold is to go along with the freehold inheritance ol the paternal
estate called Stanshawes, the heirs male to have possession of it only
tor life so that it may be kept in the family in memorial of his "late
dear wife" who gave it to him, and "who always sett tin- highest
valine upon it imaginable", and for that reason he conjures his sons
and the heirs males entitled to the inheritance of the said estate "to
observe the same as he or they shall answer to the contrary and
expect God's blessing upon them in this world and in the world to
come, and I doe hereby declare to the whole World that the only
reason which induces me to have this picture so kept in my familie is to
perpetuate the memorie of so deare and vallueable a woman as will
more plainly appcare by the inscription upon her monument in tin-'
parish church of Calne"; /40 or so much more as is sufficient to buy a
treble bell, and to wheel-stock and set the same up in the tower ot Vate.
to make a ring of 6 bells to be set up within a year after his decease it
he does not do it in his life time, any overplus to be given in bread to
the poor ot the parish by his executors; to Robert Milksham, late ol
Calne, tailor, now excise-man, £\ot to be paid 6 months after his
decease; poor of Calne £\o, ami poor ol Vate, co. Gloucester, /,'5, to 1"'
disposed of in bread at the discretion of his executors .1 month alter his
decease; ministers of Calne and Vale a gold ring each, <>l tin: v. tine ol
Stokes. 53
2os., and to all his children mourning ; appoints his wife Judith and his
brother Samuel Stokes his executors, giving his said brother ^50 to buy
himself mourning and for his pains in performance of the will ; to
William Enfeild and John Xeate £5 each to see the will performed, any
expense his executors and trustees incur is to be satisfied out of the
rents and profits of his estate, and any dispute among his legatees to
be settled by his executors and trustees, and by William Northey, esq.,
whom he entreats to assist his wife with advice in the management of
his affairs, leaving to him a gold ring of 2$s. value, and their judgment
in such dispute to be final; any legatee refusing to accept their judg-
ment shall ipso facto lose his benefit in the will, and the legacy or sums
of money so refused shall be divided among the other children
acquiescing share and share alike ; revokes all other wills. Signed on
three sheets of parchment, Richard Stokes. Witnesses, Thomas Heath,
Ann Smith, Isaac Hannum.
Whereas John Peirce, of Stanshawes, in the parish of Yatc, yeo-
man, stands indebted to him, Richard Stokes, in .£200, secured to him,
Richard Stokes, by two bonds of £\oo each, he bequeathes said two
bonds to his wife Judith, to hold the same immediately after his decease.
His snuff-box, given to him by John Glanvile, esquire, on which there is
inlaid a "scarramouch" with the word "Vigo" on the lid, he leaves to
Mrs. Elizabeth Hodges, now wife of William Hodges, of Alderton, co.
Wilts, esquire, and a ring of 25,?. value to the said William Hodges.
[Date of codicil 1 January, a.d. 1723. Witnesses, Lucy Bayntun,
Ann Smith.]
[Proved at London 22 February, A.D. 1723.]
[P.C.C. 33 Price.]
Will of Thomas Stokes ok Barbadoes, 1731.
I, Thomas Stokes, of the parish of St. Michael, in the Island of
Barbadoes, Esqr., Doctor of Physick, after funeral expenses and just
debts paid by my executors in this Island, bequeath to the poor of the
parish of Yeate, co. Gloucester, in the Kingdom of Great Britain, £\oo
sterling English money, to be remitted hence by my executors out of
personal estate here within 6 months alter my decease, to the
Minister, Churchwardens, and Overseers of the poor lor the time
being of the said parish, to be by them justly distributed among the
poor at the quarterly feast day next after their receipt of the said sum
"1 /"loo; j£i©o sterling English money for the binding of poor children
"1 the parish of Yeate aforesaid apprentices to honest and industrious
tradesmen for their livelihood, and my will is that the said poor children
,)(' first taught to read, and be instructed in the principles of the
Christian religion, the said sum to be remitted to the Minister and
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Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Churchwardens and Overseers of the poor there within 6 months alter
my decease j1 to the Church ol the parish of Yeate aforesaid ^100
sterling English money "for the purchasing of a handsome Pulpit
Cloth, Desk Cloth, and a large cushion to each of them, and also fi
handsome Communion Table Cloth and cloth to hang and adorn the
Rales of the apartment belonging to the said Communion Table, and
the same to be all made of Crimson Velvet and h inged with Deep
Gold Fringe and the Glory to be put in gold in the middle of the Pulpit
Cloth, but no mention of my name in it'", said sum of £\oo to be
remitted within 6 months after my decease to the Minister and Church-
wardens and Overseers for purchasing of cushions and cloths as afore-
said and for no other purpose whatsoever, the overplus, if the gift
should not amount to ^ioo, to be spent in plate for the Communion
Table of said Church of Yeate, as the Minister and Churchwardens
shall think convenient ; to the Commoner's Table of Merton College, in
Oxford, of which I was formerly a member. /."30 English money for a
handsome silver cup3 to be remitted to the Warden and Bursar of
Merton College, within 6 months after my decease; to my kinswoman
Mrs. Mary Codrington, of Kainsham, co. Gloucester, near Bath, in the
Kingdom of Great Britain, ^"100 sterling English money to be remitted
to her within 6 months after my decease ; to my Mulatto Girl, named
Martha, whom I have had christened. £\oo current money of this
Island, to be put out at interest at S per cent, by my Executors in this
Island to some substantial person lor use of said Martha, same to be
paid her at age of 21 years, and interest accruing to be paid to her
quarterly for her better mainteuar.ee until her age aforesaid. And 1
hereby manumit and set free said Mulatto Girl, Martha, without any
reservation, from all manner of slavery and servitude whatsoever from
and immediately after my death and not before; to my ncgroe boy,
Henry, whom I have had christened, ^50 current money of the island,
to be put out at interest for his use to some substantial person at 8 per
1 These benefactions seem now to be non-existent ; the pulpit has
been long removed from the Church, the S"ur.dir,g board being used as a
table in a private house; the communion plate is dated 1815.
2 By the kindness of the Domestic bursar < t Merton College, we are t n-
abled to give a photograph of this cup; ha writes: — 'It is a very handsome
cup, slightly embossed with 2 large ban lies, ar.d a cover the top of which
is like a pine. It has only the College crest. The inscriptions are on one
side, Colt. Mat., on the other, l,t <>s'cm commctmaliuin (bete is the crc.-tt
doiuivit Thomas Stakes ex insula It a rLaJa, M.D., ij>sc olim cunimensalis.
Height of Cup without cover 8£ inches, with cover 1 inches; ball
marks, J. crowned leopard's face, tt.P. crowned, the lion. I can sec no
hall mark weight, but on the kitchen scales the weight of the whole is
5.3 pounds."
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cent., the said interest to be paid quarterly until lie arrives at the age of
:i years, and then the sum to be paid to him; and I hereby manumit
him from all slavery immediately after my death and not before. My
will is that my negroe men, Pollio Kitt and Maurratt be sold as soon as
may be after my decease by my executors in this Island "to some civil!
and well governed familys lor their usage and treatment,-' and that they
and each of them be first baptised into the Christian Faith, also that
my negroe woman, Marcella, and her two children, Molly and Philly,
girls, and my negroe woman, Bella, and her child Jenny, a girl, and
my negroe woman, Santiba, and her two children, Peter and Hagar,
l>oy and girl, be likewise sold, being first baptized, but it is my desire
that the said negroe women be sold together with their several
children and not separate, and that my sister, Mrs. Philippa Thornhill,
have the preference of them before other purchaser; to my niece,
Eleanor Stokes, of Calne, Great Britain, ,£1,000 current money of this
Island, to be remitted to her with all convenient speed after my
decease; to my sister, Mrs. Judith Stokes, of the City of London,
Great Britain, ,£500 current money of this Island, and to her daughter,
Judith Stokes, of the same, ,£500 current money of this Island; to my
niece, Mary Stokes, daughter of my brother Poole Stokes, Esqr., of the
city of Bristol, Great Britain, /T500 current money of this Island ; to
my neice, youngest daughter of Poole Stokes (whose name I believe is
Prances), of the city of Bristol, ,£500 current of this Island; to my niece,
only daughter1 of my sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Scott, late of Bristol,
deceased, ^500 current money of this Island ; to my godson and nephew,
Edward Stokes, of the city of Bristol, £500 current money of this Island,
all these sums to be remitted with all convenient speed after my
decease; also to sonne Edward all my books and paper manuscripts
which I have by me in Barbadoes, to be sent to him with all convenient
speed after my death, and to my sister, Judith Stokes, ail the china 1 am
possessed of in Barbadoes (except two large china bowls) which 1 carry
[sic] off with me; to my friends, Doctor John Holland, Warden ol
Merton College, Oxford, William Andrews, of Barns Hall, in the city of
Worcester, esq , and John Sed^ewick, of Grays Inn, London, mourning
ring each, value 40.?. ; to my sister Philippa Thornhill, and my nephew
and neice Edward and Mary Doldarne, to my friends Geb. Me Mahon,
Hubert Warren, Humphry Waterman, esquires, Mr. James Gromwell,
merchant, and Mr. Thomas Hill, of St. Michael's parish, mourning
rings of like value; /"ioo current money of this Island to be distributed
amongst the poor families in and about the town of St. Michael in this
Island out of the first moneys that can be raised out of my personal
estate, the first distribution to be made to the families that live by me ;
my brother, Samuel Stokes, of the city of Bristol, and my sister, Judith
Stokes, of London, sole executors in the kingdom <>l Go at Britain; my
1 No name mentioned.
5<S
friends, Samuel Osborn, esquire, and Mr. William Whitaker, merchant,
my executors and trustees in the Island of Barbadoes; residue of my
personal estate in the said Island after the payment of legacies to be
remitted to my executors hereinbefore nominated in the Kingdom of
Great Britain, and likewise the proceeds of the sale of my household
stuff; my executors in Barbadoes to have a suit of mourning of the
value of £20 each, and a mourning ring each of <\os. value.
Dated 26 July 1731. Witnesses, Othniell Haggatt, Tho. Harrison,
Ja. Gromwelb
[With attestation, as to the authenticity of the will, of Othniel
Hagget, esq., before Samuel Barwick, esq., President of H.M. Council,
and Commander-in-Chief of the Charibbee Islands "at the Bell". Bar-
badoes, 3 Dec. 1731 ; and attestation of William Webster, esq., deputy
secretary of the Island, as to the true copy of the will, original being
kept in the Secretary's office of the Island, before the same. 15 July
I732-]
Codicil made at sea 2S August 1731, in case of death. I 'desire my
little negroe boy Henry may stay either with my sister, Mrs. Judith
Stokes, or be sent to Barbadoes by Mr. John Sedgwick under the care
of Capt. Thomas Smith to Mr. Win. Whittaker to be delivered to his
mother; also my man Pollio to be returned to Barbadoes; my negroe
woman Marcella I bequeath to my sister; Phillipa Thornhill, for life, and
after her death I bequeath to Marcella her freedom ; to my niece, Mrs.
Mary Doldarne, my negroe woman Bellow forever, and to Mr. Wm.
Whitaker, my man Pollio forever ; my desire is that my sister Phillipa
Thornhill send over my Mulatto girl Martha to live with my neice
Judith in England; this paper to be a codicil to my will left in hand's
of Mr. Wm. Whittaker in Barbadoes in July last; my sister, Judith
Stokes, and John Sedgwick, esquire, lo be executors of this codicil, each
to have a piece of plate of mine now on board Capt. Thos. Smith in the
Apollo. I, the said Thomas Stokes being sick and weak in body, etc.,
Witnesses, Tho. Smith, Edw. Whitehead, John Raven.
[Proved with the codicil in London, 22 February 1732,3, on the oath
of Samuel Stokes, etc.]
[Admon. granted 5 Oct. 1731, to Judith Stokes, widow, the sister,
and to John Sedgewick, the executors mentioned in the codicil of
Thomas Stokes, late of Barbadoes, in the merchant ship Apollo,
widower, deceased. [Adm. Act Bk. 1 73 1 ).]
[Chancery Proceedings. Sewell, 1714-1758.]
Bundle 437. Stokes v. James, a.D. 1723.- Thomas Stokes, the
younger, co. Gloucester, against William James, esq , and Jane his wife
and others, concerning the will ol Mary Gcering. [Questions and
Depositions.]
The Chrysom Book of St. Thomas, New So rum. 57
Ibid., Bundle 455. Stokes v. Haycock, 1745.— John Stokes,
Thomas Stokes. Thomas and Mary Axford, James Stokes, and John
Rogers against Anna Hancock, widow, Thomas Hancock, Hugh Gough
and John Purdoe. [Stokes of Devizes, Seend, &C. Depositions of
witnesses.]
Ibid., Woodford, 1714-1758.
Bundle 1013. Stokes v. Morecroft.— Thomas Stokes, of Poole,
co. Dorset, t'. Thomas Morecrol't, 172S. for Manor ot Stower Provost,
co. Dorset, or an estate there.
Ibid., Bundle 1249. Stokes v. Crump, a d. 1725.— Edward Stokes,
of St. Margaret's, Gloucester, labourer, and Hannah his wife, versus
William Crump and others, lor property at Elmore, co. Gloucester, ecc.
Ibid , Bundle 1249. Stokes 7>. Parker relates to the same.
Ibid., Mitford, 1714-173S. Bundle 2251 and 2255, Stokes v. Stokes.
—Judith, widow of Richard Stokes, of Calne. v. Samuel Stokes and
Thomas Stokes, concerning Stanshaws. Bill entered 1729. The
answers are dated 1732. (Torn and in bad condiiioti).
{To he continued.).
THE CHRYSOM BOOK OF ST. THOMAS. NEW SARUM.
{Continued from p. 25.)
From the feastc of Saint John Baptise to the Feaste of
Sainte michaell tharkangell, 1580.
The Tayleres offeringe the 26 oi June, 15S0, WWs. xd.\ Thomas
Mottiers wife churched the 27 of June, her crisome, 4//,, ai d her offer-
,ngei 4*d. qa.; another churched the same Dave, her crisome, 6d., h'-r
ottering, Id. ; Xickeles Annseles wife church.ed the 4 of Julye, her
crisome and her offering, lid. oh.; Wm. Xobei.es his wife churched the
> "I Julye, her crisome, 6d., Iter offeringe, yf. ; Edward Rodes wife
churched the 6 ot Julye, her crisome, 6d., her offeringe, 2d. qa. : Edward
^ates to Jjone Simsone the 7 of Julye. his offeringe, \'\\\d.\ Edward
Godfries wife the S of Julye, her crisome, b-i.. her offerii ge, i>d. • Robert
Smthes wife the 14 of Julye, her crisome [tmsfd]. offeringe, 2\d. qa.
["buried" in margin]; John Walter unto AlJse Hickes ttoe 25 of JtiUie, Ins
"tteringe, \\\\d. ; John Jellies wife churched the 25 of Jul>\ her crisome,
4'/,and her offeringe, £d.\ James Harrod [Hanvood and Khza M., P.K.]
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Wiltshire Nott s and Queries.
unto Elsebeth Marshall the 7 ol Auguste, his oflferinge, x\d.\ Robi
Roberts wife churched the 14 of August, her crisoni, ~d.\ her oflferinge,
$d. ob. qa. ; Mr. Edward Simbarbes wife churched the 30 of Auguste,
her crisome,' 12c/., her oflferinge ; Edward Gerishe his wife churched tli
31 of Auguste, her crisome, 6d., her offeringe, id. ; Gabriell Hayseyes
wife churched the laste of Auguste, her crisome, 6//., her oflferinge, id.\
Larrance [ ] his wife churched the second of September, her
crisome, Gd., her offeringe, 2d. ; Rychard Ryses w ile churched the 3 nf
September 1580, her crisome, 8c/., her offeringe, jd.; John Leyseyes
wife churched the 5 ol September, her crisome, Gd., her offeringe, id. ;
Nickelcs Charlet unto Marie Modye the xi ol September, his offeringe,
iijr. \\d.\ Rychard Barnes unto Allse [Alice, P.R.] VVillisse the xii ol
September, his oflferinge, xv'\\\d. qa. ; Xickeles Rydgelcyes wile churched
the 14 of September, her crisome, 6.7., oferinge, Gd. ; Win. [Foyncyes?]
wife churched the 14 of September, her crisome, Gd., her oflferinge, 3'/.;
Mr. Thomas Eyeres wife churched the 19 of September, her crisome,
id., her offeringe, 8c/.; Harrie Grilles wile churched the 19 of Sep-
tember, her crisom, Gd., her offeringe, yf. Sum, xxvj. \\\d. ob.
Rsd ye 2 de Oct. lor this qr. above, xxvs. viid. ob.
At foot of page, reversed:- Anable Rudgly borcn Symond and Jude
Day beinge ye xxvi Day of October in the yeare of our Lord God 157S.
the daughter ol Hary Rudgly of (Serth 1).
From the feastc of saint michaell thearkangell unto the
birthc of cristc, 1 5S0.
Mr. Edward Tychbornes wile churched tlx,- 30 of September, h< 1
crisome, yd., her offering, V2d.; Steven Clements wife churched the 5 ol
October, her crisoni, Gd., her offeringe, \ \d. ; John Wickes wife cliun
the 5 of October, her offeringe, hd., her crisome, Gd. ; Thomas Morgines
wife churched the 8 of October, her crisome, 4c/., her offeringe, Id. ; Mr.
Thomas Securise wife churched the io of October, her crisome, Gd.. her
offeringe, ^d. ; John Fauckeners wife churched the 12 of October, her
crisome, Gd., her offeringe, \ \d. ; Harrie Markits wile churched the 12 "I
October, her crisome, qd., her offeringe, id. ; John Perk i nes wife
churched the 15 of October, her crisome, 4V., her offeringe, \d.\ John
Trothe unto Bridget Erie the 16 of October, Ins offeringe, xxd. ; Thomas
Hickes unto Annise Leye the 16 of October, his offeringe, xxd.\ Mathew
Mayes wife churched the 19 of October, her crisome, Gd., her oflferinge,
Id. ; Wm. Bedwine his wile churched the 24 of October, her crisome,
Gd., her offeringe, ild. ; Rychard Pattiues wile churched the 24 ol
October, her crisome, Gd., her offeringe, y. \xd. \ Thomas Barnes wile
churched the 26 of October, her crisome, Gd., her offeringe, id.;
Symon Neales wife the 29 of October, her erisonie, ud., her offeringe,
/[d. ; Wm. Elowes wile churched the 29 ol October, her offeringe, id. [the
The Chrysom Book of St. T/iomas, New Sarum. 59
child is decide]; John Coles unto Yed [Edith Acton, P.R.] Ackon {sic],
the 30 of October, Ins offeringe, m\ ; William Walles unto Anise
Weste [Agnes West, P.R.] the 2 of November, his offeringe, vW'ui. ;
Kafe Lepers wife churched the 2 of November, her crisome, 4'/, her
offeringe, 2d.] Jemes Abines wile churched the 2 of November, her
crisome, 6d.f tier offeringe, i\d.\ Thomas Jeyes wife churched the 3 of
November, her crisome, 47/.. her offeringe, Id. q. ; Thomas Tories wife
churched the 7 of November, her crisome, Sd., her offeringe, 6d. qa. ;
John Abbetes wife churched the 9 of November, her crisome, 6d , her
offeringe, 5^.; Thomas Barkers wife churched the 11 of November, her
crisome, Sd., her offeringe, 3^.; John Watkines wife churched the 14 of
November, her crisome, 6d., her offeringe, ihd. ; Robert Stapler unto
Mari Chube the 21 of November, his offeringe; Harrie Corrie [Currye,
P.R.] marred unto Annise [Agnes, P.R.] Hanname the 27 of November,
his ofleringe, \\s. ; Thomas Huntes wife churched the 9 of Desembcr, her
crisome, ~d., her offeringe, 2d. ; Johne Gristes wife churched the 9 of
Desember, her crisome, 6d., her offeringe, yL\ Grigori Clarkes wife
churched the 14 of Desember, her crisome, (id., her offeringe, ihd. ; John
Lydes wife churched the 19 of Desember, her crisome, $d., her offeringe,
\\d.; John Jones wife the 19 of Desember, her crisome, 5^., her offer-
inge, \d. Sum, xxvs. \\d. 6b.
Layde out for vi li. of candelles, xvd.
Layd out lor oyle, xxid.
Rsd for this as above wrighten, xxvs. iid. ob.
Rober Bower, churchwarden.
From the nativitie of our Lord God to the Annutiationc
of our Ladye, 15S1.
Wm. Starke unto Jone Foster, widow, married the 2S of Desember,
his offeringe, od.\ Youstis Westes wife churched the 4 of Januarie, 15S0,
her crisome, 6d., her offeringe, 2%d.\ Pilgrim Whites wife churched the
9 of Januarie, her crisome, yd., her offeringe, id. qa. ; Thomas
Carpenteres wife churched the 12 of Januarie, her crisome, 6d., her
offeringe, ^d. ; Nickles Kyrbyes wife churched the 16 of Januarie, her
crisome, 6d., her offeringe, 2d.: Harrie Corrieres wife churched tin- 200I
Januarie, her crisome, od , her offeringe, $d. q. [the ehilde is buried];
Nickles Kempe unto Anne Wickes [Weeks, P.R.] the 21 of Januarie;
Jyles Waulter unto Allse [Alice, P.R.] Matkit the 21 of Januarie. his
offeringe, nd. ; Anthonye Savjdges wife churched the 26 of Januarie, her
crisome, 4^., her offeringe. id. ; Goody Kdwardes churched the 27 ol
Januarie, her crisome, 6d.t her offeringe, 2d. qa. ; Win. Pornell unto Jone
Marshall the 30 of Januarie, his ofleringe, 5V. ; Wm. Speriuges wile
churched the 7 of Fcjbruarje, her crisom, Od., her offering, id. qa. ; John
Roberts wife churched the iS of Februarie, her crisom, 6d., her offering,
•'/•qa.; Hitmfrey Touseys wife churched the 20 of Februarie, lier crisom,
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6d., her offering, yl.\ Lewse Redes wife churched the 22 of Februarie.
her crisom, 6d., her offering. ihd.; John Hickes wife churclied the 22 ol
Februarie, her crisom. 5//., her offering, \hd. ; Harri Williams wife
churched the 25 of Februarie, her crisom, od., her offering, 3.V. [the
child is ded] ; John Barnes wife churched the 2$ ot Februarie, her
crisom, 6d., her offeringe, 2\d. qr. ; Annis Hopkins churched the 6 of
Marche, her crisom, $d.\ Richard UpThomas wife churched the 8 ol
Marche, her crisom, Gd., her offeringe, 2d. ; John Longmanes wife
churched the 15 of Marche, her crisome, 6c/., her offering. 2>l.\ Rychard
Richards wife churched the 18 of Marche, her crisome.4rf., her offeringe,
\\d. ; John Boyeres wife churched the 20 of Marche, her crisome, 'y/.,
her offeringe, \},d. ; John Jordenes wife churched the 24 of Marche, her
crisome, Cd., offeringe \\d. Sum, xiis. mid.
Layd out for vii li. of candles, xviir/. ob.
For stamping of tokenes, iiii//.
For oylle, vind.
For a butt for the preste. iid.
For a matt for Mr. Bowes pewe, ud.
Rsd by me, Robert Bower, the x Apryll, 1581, for this qr endid 011
our Ladye Deye, xii^. i'nid.
Edmund Nevill.
(To be continued.)
RECORDS OF WILTSHIRE PARISHES.
ERCHFONT WITH STERT.
(Concluded from p. 19.)
Recovery Roll. [Trinity, 7 William III R. 182.]
a.d. 1695 Wilts. --William Ash, esq., sues against Thomas
Foley, junior, esquire, the manors ot Ashlington alias Etchil-
hampton, Northcombc, Coate, and Tilset alias Tilshead, with
appurtenances, and 40 messuages, a dovecote, 40 gardens, 800
acres of land, 200 acres of meadow, 500 acres of pasture, 40
acres of wood, 1,000 acres of gorse and heather, pasture for 24
oxen, 12 bullocks, a bull, and 760 sheep, and common of
Records of Wiltshire Parishes.
61
pasture in Echilhampton, Bratton, Escott, Northcombc,
Urshent alias Erchfont, and elsewhere. Edward Ernie, bar1,
and John Wheeler, vouchees.
Ibid. [A\ 92.]
Wilts.— William Mathews and John Surton, sue' against
John Skrine, gentleman, and William Hitchrocke, gentleman,
4 messuages, 7 gardens, 95 acres of land, 35 acres of meadow,
20 acres of pasture, 5 acres of wood, 10 acres of gorse and
heather, and common of pasture in Fulloway alias Fullway,
Allcannings, and Erchfont. William Edwardes, and William
Noyes, gentleman, vouchees.
Recovery Roll. [Easier, 8 William III.]
a.d. 1696 Wilts. — William Sainsbury, gentleman, sues
against Nathaniel Ryder, gentleman, 5 messuages, 5 gardens,
32 acres of land, 8 acres of meadow, 26 acres of pasture, 1 acre
of wood in Eastcott and Urchfont. Richard Dowse and John
Wheeler, vouchees.
Recovery Roll. [Hilary, 13 William III.]
a.d. 1701 Wilts. — Richard Bayly, clerk, &John Lyddyard,
sue against James Long, gentleman, a messuage, 40 acres of
land, 15 acres of meadow, 10 acres of pasture, and common of
pasture with appurtenances in Urchfont alias Ursheont.
Robert Craib and John Caik, vouchees.
Recovery Roll. [Michaelmas, 2 Anne.]
a.d. 1703 Wilts. — William Longuevillc, esquire, sues
against Robert Bruce, esquire, and James Bruce, esquire, the
manors of Wolphall alias Wolfhall, Erchfont alias Urchfont,
and other manors and property in Wiltshire. Charles Bruce,
esquire, and John Cooke, vouchees.
Feet of Fines, Wilts. [Michaelmas, n Anne,]
a.d. 1712. — Fine made 3 weeks after Michaelmas, 1 1 Anne.
Between William Jones and James Davis, plaintiffs, and
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Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Henry Flower, senior, and Mary his wife, Mary Noyes
Flower, spinster, and Richard Flower, deforciants, of 4 mes-
suages, 4 gardens, 63 acres of land, 5 acres of meadow, and
common of pasture for all kinds of cattle in Escott, Ershfont
alias Urchfont, Bedborough and Roundcway. The right of
William Jones and quitclaim to him and J. Davis and heirs of
William, and warrant}* against Henry Flower and Mary and
heirs of Henry, and against other deforciants and their heirs,
for £200 sterling.
Recovery- Roll. [Trinity, 7 George J, m. 53.]
a.d. 1721 Wilts. — Richard Hope, gentleman, sues against
John Way, gentleman, 5 messuages, 10 gardens, 40 acres of
land, 5 acres of meadow, 35 acres of pasture, 1 acre of wood,
and common of pasture for all cattle in Fastcott, Urchfont and
in the parish of Urchfont. Richard Dowse and Garrat
Edmonds, vouchees.
Feet of Fixes, Wilts. [Trinity, 7 George I.]
A.D. 172 1. — Fine at Westminster on the morrow of the
Holy Trinity. Between John Way, gentleman, and James
Ryder, gentleman, plaintiffs, and James Bishopp and Jane his
wife, and Richard Dowse, deforciants, of a messuage, 4
cottages, 2 barns, 2 stables, 5 gardens, 5 orchards, 40 acres
of land, 5 acres of meadow, 35 acres of pasture, 1 acre of wood,
and common of pasture for all kinds of beasts in Eastcott,
Urchfont, and the parish of Urchfont. Right of John Way
acknowledged and quitclaim and warranty to him and James
Ryder and heirs of John, against James Bishopp and Jane,
and heirs of Jane, and against Richard Dowse and his heirs,
for £60 sterling.
Ibid. [Michaelmas, 2 George II.]
a.d. 1729. — [Date of month illegible^ Between John
Way, gentleman, and James Ryder, gentleman, plaintiffs, and
Richard Amor and Elizabeth his wife, and Anne Amor senior,
Records of Wiltshire Parishes.
63
deforciants, of a messuage, a water mill, a garden, 2 orchards,
:c acres of land, 58 acres of meadow, and 58 acres of pasture,
with appurtenances in Crookwood in the parish of Urchfont,
and Marston in parish of Potterne ; right of John Way
acknowledged with quitclaim to him and his heirs and to James
Ryder, and warranty against Richard and Elizabeth and Anne
and heirs of Richard and Anne, for /ic: sterling.
Ibid. [Easter, 2 George 11]
a.d. 1729. — Fine at Westminster, 10 days after Easter.
Between Thomas Bray [?], plaintiff, and Roger Prickett senior,
and Roberta his wife, and Roger Prickett junior, deforciants,
of S messuages, 8 gardens, 3S [?] acres of land, 30 acres of
meadow, 30 acres of pasture, 20 acres of gorse and heather,
with appurtenances in parish of Urchfont. Right of Thomas
Bray with quitclaim and warranty. [The sum given is
illegible.]
Exchequer K. R. Bills and Answers, Wilts, No. 13S.
[16 George II.]
To Sam. Sandys, Esq., Chancellor and under Treasurer of
Exchequer, &e.
a.d. 1742-43. — William Darwin of the parish of St. Dun-
stan in the West, co. Middlesex, and Anne his wife, debtors
to his Majesty, set forth that whereas the said Anne was sole-
daughter and heiress of Richard Davies, co. Wilts, yeoman,
and Jane his wife, both deceased, and the -aid Jane was sole
daughter and heiress of Roger Pickett, of Escott, co. Wilts,
yeoman, deceased, who in or about the years 1715 and 1716
made his will, devizing sundry acres of pasture and arable-
land in the parish of Urehford [sic] to the value of 10 pounds
yearly, on which ground great number of timber trees grew
to the value of ^300, to Anne his wife for term of life and
after her death to said Jane, his daughter, mother of the
oratrix Anne Darwin; that after the marriage of Jane Pickett
with R. Davies, Anne Pickett her mother requiring ^25
64 Wiltshire Notes and Quern s.
applied to Catherine Lady Dowager of Abingdon,1 "to whom
with Jane and R. Davies she executed a deed of mortgage on
the premises, and the said Dowager intermarried with Francis
Wroughton, esq., who dying, appointed William Wroughton,
the defendant, his brother, his executor ; they complain that
the Dowager felled quantity of the said timber without
accounting to your orator's father, nor after his death to your
orators, and that William Wroughton refuses to account for
the same, alleging that he intends to lessen the value of the
premises, and to defeat the orator's estate therein, and hinder
the redemption thereof ; wherefore they pray that the defen-
dant may be made to come to an account with them, &c.
Answer of William Wroughton, defendant.
Anne Pickett, late of Eastcott, widow, aforesaid Richard
Davies and Jane his wife, by indenture of mortgage dated
i May 1714, in consideration of £2$ paid to them by Francis
Green, of Imber, clerk, sold to the latter the ground in Eastcott
called Watmans Hall, with timber growing thereon, for 500
years, redeemable on payment of ^25 on 1 Nov. next ensu-
ing; that being behind in principal and interest she made a
fresh deed (the ^£"25 having been his brother Francis Wrough-
ton's money) for /^io, advanced by defendant, for 50 years,
dated 9 Sept. 1724, through which deed he is still in possession;
he does not remember that any timber has been felled, though
some of small value may have been cut for repairing hedges,
etc., and none has been felled since the death of the Dowager
Countess of Abingdon, wherefore he prays to be dismissed,
etc.
Fekt of Finks, Wilts. [Michaelmas, 17 George //.]
a.d. i 743.- -Fine at Westminster, 3 weeks after Michael-
mas, 17 George II. Between Israel Bull, plaintiff, and
1She was eldest daughter and co-heir of Sir Thomas Charabcrlainc, 2ml
Bt,, and Dowager Viscountess Wen man, and took f.-r bCf third husband,
Francis Wroughton, of Escott; in her will, dated i) July 1711, she direcU 10
be buried with her husband at Long Newnton,— [Kd.J
Records of Wiltshire Parishes.
65
Matthew Loder and Jane his wife, John Prickett, gentleman,
and Anne his wife, and Jane Anstie, spinster, deforciants, of 6
acres of land and 6 acres of pasture, with the appurtenances
in Crookwood and Urchfont otherwise Erchfont. The right
of Israel acknowledged with warranty against Matthew and
Jane and her heirs, against John and Anne and her heirs, and
against Jane Anstie and her heirs, for £60 sterling.
Recovery Roll. \Michaelmas} 21 George J I, R. 10.]
a.d. 1747 Wilts. —John Cooper, gentleman, demands
against John Hitches, gentleman, for 6 messuages, 4 tofts,
8 gardens, 80 acres of land, 20 acres of meadow, 40 acres of
pasture, and common of pasture, with the appurtenances in
Crookwood and Netherheath, in Fullway, Allcanninges and
Erchfont alias Urchfont. Benjamin Wyche, clerk, vouchee.
Feet of Fines, Wilts. [Trinity, 28, 29, George II]
a.d. 1755. — Fine at Westminster on the morrow of the
Holy Trinity, 2S George II. Between Edward Woodcock,
gentleman, plaintiff, and Charles Duke of Queensbcrry and
Dover, and Catherine his wife, deforciants, of the manors
of South Dawbennies, Ambresburie otherwise Amsburie
otherwise Amesbury, and Erchfont otherwise Urchfont other-
wise Ushont, with appurtenances, and 30 messuages, 70
cottages, 3 mills, 50 barns, 50 stables, 50 gardens, 50 orchards,
10,300 acres of land, 700 acres of meadow, 1,450 acres of
pasture, 2,000 acres of wood, common of pasture for all cattle,
common of turbary free fishery, Courts Leet, Courts Baron,
etc., in West and East Amesbury, etc., and in Urchfont.
Grant of the manors to Edward Woodcock with all rights and
warranty during the life of said Catherine.
Recovery Roll. [Michaelmas, 32 George II, R. 349.]
a.d 175S Wilts. — Sarah Wroughton, widow, demands
against Robert Pardoe, gentleman, 10 messuages, 1 dovehouse,
10 gardens, 350 acres of land, 50 acres of meadow, 100 acres
F
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Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
of pasture, 20 acres of wood, and common of pasture for all
manner of cattle, with the appurtenances in Eastcott, Ililcot
otherwise Hulcot, North Newton, Urchfont, and Easterton.
Seymour Wroughton, esquire, vouchee.
[The "Salisbury Journal" (No. 1569J, Monday, June 13, 176S.]
To be Sold by Auction.
In several Lots, or Leases for 99 years, determinable on throe lives,
at Mr. Daniel Compton's, the great Farm-House in Erchfont, on
Wednesday the 22c! of this inst. June, precisely at Ten o'clock in the
Morning.
The capital Mansion-House of Hrchfont afore-said, with the stable
and other Buildings, Gardens and Orchards, thereto belonging, and
about 126 Acres of Arable Land, in the common Fields, 128 acres of
Maiden Down in several, and about 162 acrrs oi Arable, Meadow and
Pasture Land inclosed. Also several Dwelling-Houses. Barns and other
Buildings, with a new-built Water Corn-Mill. The whole Premises lie
in Erchfont aforesaid, and are Part of the estate late of Sir William
Pynsent, Bart., deceased.
Erchfont is 4 miles from Devizes, iS from .Salisbury. 2 from Market
Lavington. and 22 from Bath, and has two Branches i t a Turnpike-Road
running through the Parish. It extends upon the P. a in leading from
Devizes to Salisbury, is a healthy Country, remarkably tine either for
shooting or hunting.
The first Lot will be the Mansion-House with ti e Stables, CD! tires.
Orchards and Gardens. The Mansion-House is exceedingly well built,
the Rooms commodious and well-proportioned, with Cellars and Wine
Vaults under the whole House. On the first Floor are three good Par-
lours wainscoted, a Hall. Anti-Chamber and spacious Staircase. On
the second Floor seven very good Bedchambers, with Closets and two
Dressing-Rooms, over which are eight hand; :n • G -;• ts.
There is also commodious Stabling for 25 Horses, and two Coach-
Houses, all substantially built with Brick : also a large Pigeon House.
The Garden is about two Acres, of which about Halt is enclosed with a
Brick Wall. The Orchard adjoins thereto, and is about iive Acres.
N.B. The Mansion-House, Garden and Orchard are capable ol
great improvements, and will be sold in Fee if a Purchaser chooses it
rather than on Lives.
Particulars at large of the several Lots may be had at Mr. Dench's,
Attorney at Law, in Castle Street, or Mr. Wapshare's, in t lie Close,
Salisbury; Mr. Whatley's at the Bear Inn, at Devizes, or by applying to
Mr. Edward Pierce at Erchfont aforesaid, who will shew tin' Premises.
At the same time will be sold, the Crop ol Grass and Corn now
growing on the several Lands.
Records of Wiltshire Parishes. 67
Note. — It haying been always customary to pay the Purchase Money
at the Time of making the Contract, for all Lifehold Estates in the
Manor of Erchfont, the same is expected now, where the Purchase for
any single Lot shall not exceed ,£150, and lor all above that sum ^20
percent, is to be paid down as a Deposit, and the Remainder on a Day
to be fixed at the Time of Sale.'
Recovery Roll. [Trinity \ 5 George III, R. 361.]
a.d. 1765 Wilts. — Robert Ward, gentleman, demands
against David Jennings, gentleman, for the manor of Wingfield
and other property, and also all manner of tithes whatsoever
yearly arising in Stert, and the parish of Urciant otherwise
Urchfont. John Cooper, esquire, vouchee.
Notes of Fines, Wilts. [From the King's Silver Books.']
a.d. 1769, Hilar}' term, 30 December, 10 George III. —
William Wapshaw, gentleman, plaintiff, against Charles, Duke
of Oueensbcrry and Dover, defendant, of 13 messuages, 1
dovehouse, 1 water corn-mill, 4 bains, 4 stables, 13 gardens,
13 orchards, 300 acres of land, 50 acres of meadow, 200 acres
of pasture, and common of pasture for all cattle with the
appurtenances in Erchfont.
a.d. 1770, Michaelmas term, 20 Nov., ii George III.—
Seymour Wroughton, esq., plaintiff, against Thomas Wilkins
and Rose, deforciants, of 2 messuages, a garden and an
orchard, with appurtenances in Eastcott and in parish of
Urchfont.
Recovery Roll. [Hilary, 15 George III, R. 6.]
a.d. 1775 Wilts. — John Coorc, gent., demand1, against
James Payee, gent., defendant, for 7 messuages, 14 gardens,
100 acres of land, 24 acres of meadow, 50 acres of pasture,
and common of pasture with the appurtenances in Etchil-
h amp ton otherwise Ashlington, Stert and Urchfont. Vouchee
John Bayly.
1 Kindly comnmnieated by Mr. John Watson Taylor.
V 2
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Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Notes of Fines, Wilts. [From the King's Silver Books.]
a.d. 1785, Trinity term, 25 June, 22 George III. — Thomas
Hayter, gent., plaintiff, against Philip Tinker, gent., and Anne
and Sarah Sainsbury, sprs., defendants, of 4 messuages, 4
barns, 4 stables, 4 gardens, 4 orchards, 40 acres of land, 10
acres of meadow, 10 acres of pasture, and common of pasture
for all manner of cattle with appurtenances in Escott and
Urchfont.
a.d. 1786, Easter term, 23 Feb., 26 George III.— Simon
Pile, plaintiff, against Seymore Pierce, defendant, of 6 orchards,
6 acres of land, 6 acres of meadow, and 6 acres of pasture,
with appurtenances in Urchfont.
a.d. 1787, Hilary term, 12 April, 27 George III. — Philip
Parry, gent., plaintiff, against Sarah Snook, widow, William
Snook, and Anne, and Henry Snook, defendants, of 17 acres
of land, 17 acres of meadow, and 17 acres of pasture, with
appurtenances in Urchfont.
a.d. 1797, Easter term, 20 May, 37 George III. — John
Hodges, gent., plaintiff, against Theresa Tichbourne, spinster,
defendant, of 3 messuages, 3 cottages, 1 malthouse, 4 barns,
4 stables, 6 gardens, 6 orchards, 170 acres of land, 80 acres of
meadow, 160 acres of pasture, and 20 acres of furze and
heather, and common of pasture for all manner of cattle, with
the appurtenances in Eachillhampton, otherwise Ashlington,
Allcannings, Wedhampton, Stert, Urchfont otherwise Erchfont,
Coate and Bishop's Cannings.
[Index of Fines /or IV i Its.]
Hilary, 47 George III. — John Gale, plaintiff, and James
Nash and Christian his wife, defendants, of property in
Urchfont.
Hilary, 48 George III. — Richard Halliday, plaintiff, and
John Montague Poore and Elizabeth his wife, defendants, of
property in Wedhampton in Erchfont.
Michaelmas, 50 George III. — Thomas Mannings, plaintiff,
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and Hezekiah Morver and Martha his wife, defendants, of
property in Wedhampton in Urchfont
Hilary, 50 George III. — Henry Snook, plaintiff, and
Thomas Snook and Hannah his wife, and other deforciants, of
property in Urchfont.
Michaelmas, 51 George III. — Thomas Tanner, plaintiff,
and Thomas Smith and Anne his wife, deforciants, of property
in Erchfont.
Trinity, 55 George III. — John Grant, plaintiff, and Edward
Newman and Mary Ann his wife, deforciants, of property in
Urchfont.
Trinity, 56 George III. — James White, plaintiff, and Evi
Raymond and Mary his wife, deforciants, of property in
Urchfont.
Michaelmas, 57 George III. — George Davis, plaintiff, and
Thomas Smith and Leticia his wife, deforciants, of property
in Urchfont.
Hilar}', 58 George III. — Robert Giddings, plaintiff, and
Henry Snook and Mary his wife, and others, deforciants, of
property in Urchfont.
Trinity, 4 George 1Y. — John Surcome, plaintiff, and
Robert Crook and Anne his wife, deforciants, of property in
Urchfont.
Recovery Roll. [3 George IV, Easier, R. 20.]
a.d. 1S22 Wilts.— John Bethune Bayly, gent., demand1,
against John Combe, gentleman, for 3 acres and 2 roods of
land, with appurtenances in parish of Urchfont. William
Jones Hale, junior, vouchee.
E. M. Thompson.
THE WILTSHIRE SOCIETY.
(Vol. I, 521; Vol. II, 35, 79; Vol. Ill, -|Sj
Under this title have been published from time to time
in this magazine the particulars of the meetings of
7o
Will shire Notes and Queries.
Wiltshiremen at London, Bath and Bristol in byegonc
days, who attended church, proceeded to a dinner, and finally
subscribed their quota for the laudable object of apprenticing
some poor Wiltshire child, or some other act of special charity
towards a native or natives of the County of Wilts-. The late
Mr. William Cunnington has shown that the Wiltshire Feast
held in London dates back to as far as 1654, while the Invitation
Card reproduced in vol. ii, p. 35, showed that the meeting of
the Wiltshire Society in London dated back as far as 1734.
Having on various occasions picked up some Wiltshire
sermons at second-hand booksellers, it may be interesting to
your readers to know that the Wiltshire Society in Bristol
must date from before 1729. This is evident from the follow-
ing titles : —
"A sermon preached at All Saints Church in Bristol,
before the Wiltshire Society (at their Annual Least) held at
the Merchants Hall of the said City, on Thursda}', August the
21st, 1729, by Joseph Horler,1 Master of the Free School and
Curate of Wilton, Sarum : Printed by Charles Hooton, lor the
author, and sold by Edward Easton, Bookseller near St.
Thomas's Church in Silver Street." There is a dedicatory
address
"To my very good friends, Mr. James Still, President, Mr. Thomas
Gibbs, Treasurer, and to the Assistants and all other worthy members
and supporters of the Wiltshire Society,' —
in the course of which he states: —
"God seems not to want his agent among you already, who have-
warmly espoused this cause of his, and arc bent on carrying it on; who
endeavour with a commendable zeal and a bright example to spirit up
the members of this Society to answer the end of their annua! meeting,
to make handsome collections for some poor children, natives of your
county, to procure tor them some honest and respectable trade, and
secure to them a comfortable living in the World."
At the end of the sermon he says: —
"For the design of our meeting (if 1 deem aright) was not merely to
1 Son of Joseph Horler (Pleb.), of Hart Hall, Oxon, matriculated 1721, ret.
20; B.A. 17o2-3.-[ICu.J
The Wiltshire Society.
7<
hear the voice of singing men or singing women, or to eat and drink and
rise up to play; bnt to support a spirit of charity and friendship and
brotherly society ; that our plenty might put us in mind of other's wants,
and that we might remember those that are in affliction acting ourselves
also in the body. It would redound much to your honour and credit to
improve that custom, which has lately been revived, of selecting a minor
of the household [sic] of faith to be the particular object of your bounty;
who might date his happiness as it were from this little sera of your
Feast, by being plac"d abroad in such circumstances, as never probably
could have attended him without your friendly care and assistance."
"A sermon preached at Temple church, Bristol, before
the Wiltshire Society at their Annual Feast, held in that City,
August 16, 1750, by Joseph Horler, B.A., Master of the Free
School at Wilton. Published at the request of the audience.
Printed for the publick good. Price Fourpencc. It is dedi-
cated to Mr. Richard Smith, President, the Assistants, and the
other worth}7 members of the Wiltshire Society."
"A sermon preached at St. Mary Le Bow, Nov. 27, 1682,
being the day of the Wiltshire Feast, by Edward Polling/
Rector of St. Martin's, Ludgate, and Chaplain to his Grace
the Duke of Somerset. London : Printed for John Crump at
the Three Bibles in St. Paul's Churchyard ; and William
Abingtoil, at the Three Silkworms in Ludgate Street, 166.5.
It is dedicated To my Worthy Friends and Countrymen
Mr. John Davies, Mr. Cornelius Dyer, Mr. William Cleere,
Mr. John Hunt, Mr. William Davies, Mr. Edward Odell,
Mr. Thomas Jones, Mr. Stephen Palmer, Mr. Anthony White,
Mr. Tho. Fitz-Rudell, Stewards of the Wiltshire Feast."
Lastly I would add to these the title-page of—
"A sermon preached at the consecration of a chappel in
the house of John Collins, Esq. ; of Chute in Wiltshire.
Performed by the Right Reverend Father in God, Scth, Lord
1 Of Wilt>liire birth, educated at Westminster, matriculated 1Gd8 at
Trinity College, Cambridge, Fellow U;o5, D.I). 1689, Rector of Pctworth,
Chaplain to William and .Mary, a >toul defender of the Anglican Church
against Catholics and Dissenters. Author 01 many printed sermons and
numerous controversial works, died 1718.— [Ed.]
72
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Bishop of Sarum, on the 25th September. 1673. By Joseph
Kelsey, B.D., Rector of Newton Tony in Wiltshire. London :
Printed for Jonathan Edwin, at the Three Roses in Ludgate
Street, 1674." This is referred to by Canon Jackson in his
Ancient Cliapcls, etc., in co. Wilts.
John Dyke.
PECULIARS OF THE DEAN AND CHAPTER OF
SARUM.
(Continued from p. 36. )
1631.
Tomer, Wm., of Sherborne, Dorset, yeo., 27, & Joane
Easton, of the same, sp., 19 ; \V., Richard Easton, bro. of
Joane ; 10 Apr.
Edmondes, Thomas, of Ogborne St. Andrew, 74, &
Margery Painter, of the same, wid., 70; 21 Apr.
Nicholls, Mr. Ferdinand, of Sherborne, Dorset, clerk, 33,
& Maiw Lottisham, of the same, sp., 25 ; 2$ Apr.
Coake, Willm., of Here Regis, 6c, & Christian Galton,
of the same, sp., 22 ; B'dman, John Skinner, of the same ;
2 May.
Cuchdall, a/s. Hidden, Edward, of Hungerford, Wilts, 50,
& Joane Stroud, of Baydon, in Ramsbury, sp., 22 ; 17 May.
Commyn, George, Vicar of Burbage, 60, & Edith Stagge,
of the same, wid., 55; B'dman, John Xoy-e, of Burbage,
gent. ; 8 June.
Diaper, Wm., of Collingborne Kingston. Wilts, husb., 28,
& Edgar Rattuc, of Great Durnford, 22 ; 19 July.
Rolfe, William, a/s. Knowlcs, of Crofton, in Great Bcdwin,
miller, 34, & Elizabeth Clarke, of Wilton, in Great Bedwin,
sp., 30 ; 15 Aug.
Somersctt, ats. Cooke, Thos., of Chime, Wilts, 23, &
Sarah Shereman, of the same, sp., 20.
Peculiars of the Demi and Chapter of Sarimi. 73
Hayes, John, of Little Bedwin, Wilts, 23, & Joana Banks,
of Ramsbury, sp., 16; Ramsbury ch. ; 24 Sept.
Tarrant, Nicholas, of Wilton, in Great Bedwin, 22, &
Alee Refe, of the same, sp., 20 ; B'dman, Robert Long, of
Crofton, in Great Bedwin ; 25 Sept.
Carter, John, of Chipping Farringdon, Berks, yeo., 41, &
Anne Wilson, of the same, 50 ; 26 Sept.
Mr. Walter Bennett, of Great Bedwin, marryed the
4th of September 1631, att his house betimes in the morn-
inge, the Banes but twice asked.
Clothier, Stephen, of Little Alveston, in Folke, co. Dorset,
22, & Elizabeth Ridout, of the same, sp., 30 ; 12 Oct.
Tatton, Thomas, of Watchficld, Wilts, & Margaret, d. of
Mr. Thomas White, of Knighton, in Ramsbury; B'dman,
Thomas Walrond, gent. ; 9 Oct.
Wolfries, Henry, jun., of Maishe, in Bloxworth, co.
Dorset, 23, & Mrs. Elizabeth Ogden, of Crichell, Dorset, 23 ;
B'dmen, Mr. Henry Wolfries, father of Henry, jun., and
Edmund Ogden, Elizabeth's bro. ; 20 Oct.
OlcifTc, Thomas, of Cherrill, Wilts, husb., 33, & Katherine
Tucke, of Calnc, sp., 30 ; 27 Oct.
Fisher, Richard, of Mere, Wilts, 21, & Alec Smart, of the
same,sp. 20; B'dman, Edward Fisher, Richard's fa. ; 29 Nov.
Burden, Andrew, of Ramsbury, 23, & Adiana Phillipps,
21, of the same; B'dman, William Burden, mercer, of the
same, Andrew's fa. ; 5 Dec.
Spiccr, John, of the Close, Sarum, carver, wid., & Margaret
Atkins, of the same, sp., 30 ; 7 Dec.
Carter, William, of Uffculmc, Devon, husb., 22, & Joanc
Taulton, of the same, sp., 22 ; B'dman, Robt. Bishopp, of
the same ; 16 Dec.
Carter, Francis, of Briddy, Dorset, yeo., 30, & Margery
Ford, of Fordington, 22 ; B'dman, Mr. Thomas Sticklic,
clerk, parson of Woodford, Dorset; 16 Dec.
74 WilisJiirc Notes and Queries.
1631/2.
Bryant, John, of South Marston, Wilts, 30, & Francis
Mo[— ]s, of Castle Eaton, 22; 12 Jan. 1631 2; B'dman,
Leonard Hamcll.
Bawler, Richard, of Legh, in Yetminster, Dorset, yco.,
33, & Margaret Bawler, of Bere Hackett, Dorset, wid. ;
6 Feb.
Kingman, Walter, of Great Wishford, Wilts, 25, &
Elizabeth Wise, of Great Durnford, sp., 24; 11 Feb.
Coward, Wolfstan, of Mere, Wilts, tanner, 23, & Dorothie
Forward, of the same, sp., 24 ; 13 Feb.
Tibb, John, of Alton Pancras, Dorset, husb., 25, &
Christian Wood, of the same, sp., 23 ; 14 Feb.
1632.
Chaplyn, John, of Overcompton, Dorset, yco., 70, &
Elizabeth Mich ell of the same, 24 ; fa., Thomas Michell,
appears and consents ; 28 Mar.
Bcriew, John, of Maiden Bradley, Wilts, clerk, 27, &
Alee Merrifeild, of Fordington, Dorset, 20; 30 Ap.
Foster, Richard, of Sherborne, Dorset, yco., 24, &
Margaret Fisher, of the same, sp., 21 ; 18 May.
Rootes, Alexander, of Great Bedwin, yeo., 30, & Mary
Mullins, of Titcomb, sp., 21, d. of Thos. Mullins, of the
same ; 1 7 May.
Warwick, Richard, of the Close, Sarum, gent., 30, <S:
Lucy Strangcwaies, 27, d. of Tho. Strangewaies, of Mas ton,
in Bere Regis, Dorset ; 15 May.
Draper, John, of Hornisbam, Wilts, weaver, wid., 60, &
Edith Huffe, ofTisbury, wid., 60 ; 2 1 May.
Ball, Richard, of Tytherington, Wilts, tayler, 28, & Anna
Edwards, of the same, sp., 21 ; 22 May.
Ascue, Robert, of Ramsbury, yco., 36, & Jane Burden, of
the same, 18 ; B'dman, Win. Burden, of the same, Jane's
fa. ; 24 May.
Bunter, Leonard, of Bps. Caundle, Dorset, yco., 21, &
Peculiars of the Dean and Chapter of Saritni. 75
Anne, d. of John Burt, of North Wotton, Dorset, sp., 20;
30 May.
Collins, John, tayler, wid., *5c Helenc Ganiett, sp., both
of Caundle Marsh, Dorset, both 30 ; Mr. Robert Ganiett,
her fa, will not consent ; 31 May.
Pope, Robert, of Heytesbury, Wilts, wid., 39, & Agnes
Kinge, of the same, sp., 30; 16 June.
Gould, John, of Bere Regis, Dorset, yeo., 21, & Francis
Trew, of the same, sp., 20 ; 2$ June.
Rufyn, John, of Eastroope, in Highworth, \\7ilts, )'eo.,
27, vN: Alice Brookman, of the same, sp., 21 ; 6 Aug.
Burnett, John, of Wells, Somt., wid., 40, & Mary Greene,
sp., of the Close, Sarum, 24 ; 30 Sept.
Scovell, Thomas, of Michelmas, co. South., husb., 32, &
Martha Horder, of the Close, Sarum. 28511 Oct.
Elliott, Thomas, of Great Durnford, tayler, 2S, & Mary
Williams, als. Carter, of the same, sp., 24 ; 20 Oct.
Sargeant, George, of Bere Regis, miller, 29, & Margaret
Crooch, of the same, sp., 1S ; 26 Oct.
Dyer, George, of Heytesbury, gent., wid., & Constance
Marvyn, d. of William Marvyn, of Boyton, Wilts, clerk, 26 ;
Heytesbury or Knooke Chapel ; 19 Nov.
Bugges, John, of Mere, Wilts, weaver, 24, & Joane Docll,
of Shaston, Dorset, sp., 29 ; 30 Nov.
Paty, John, the elder, of Long Burton, Dorset, wid., &
Elizabeth Marten, sp. ; B'dman, Thomas Marten, fa. of
Elizabeth ; 5 Dec.
Symes, Robert, of Netherbury, Dorset, yeo., 25, <S: Agnes
Richards, of the same, sp., 21 ; 13 Dec.
Cowhey, Leonard, of Mere, Wilts, tayler, 21, & Mary
Darby, of the same, sp., 25 ; 17 Dec.
1632 3.
Clench, Leonard, of Bere Regis Dorset, wid., & Alec
Browninge, of Corfc Mullen, Dorset, wid.; 3 Jan.
Carpenter, John, of Longleat, Wilts, yeo., 35, & Cicily
76 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Bayly, of Hornesham, sp., 35 ; B'dman, John Kinge, of
Hornesham, W. Tho. Kinge, thelderj 1 Jan.
Dewy, James, gent, of Bloxworth, Dorset, gent., 21, &
Mary Strangewaie, sp., of Winterbourne Kingston, Dorset,
20 ; 10 Jan.
Pittman, Robert, of Bradford Abbas, Dorset, clothier, &
Anne Batson, of Sherborne; B'dman, Henry Batson, Anne's
fa. ; 6 Feb.
Davies, William, of Sherborne, Dorset, husb., 28, &
Bettrice Burte, of the same, sp., 20; 12 Feb.
Rideout, Walter, of North Wotton, Dorset, husb., 28, &
Alee Balch, of the same, wid. ; 13 Feb.
Browne, Theophilus, of Sherborne, Dorset, gent., 31, &
Emme Doughton, of the same, sp., 27 ; The Rt. Hon. the
Earl of Bristol consents, to whom the}' are both servants ;
23 Feb.
Smith, Thos., of Mere, Wilts, lynnen weaver, wid., &
Mary Hayse, of Tuddrington, Wilts, sp., 34 ; 4 Mar.
Symcs, Thomas, of Nethcrbury, husb., 28, & Grace Miller,
of the same, sp. ; 26 Mar.
Fox, Edward, clerk, parson, of Tompson, Dorset, 36, tS:
Jean Pickcringe, of Anderston Fiveashe, Dorset, sp., 40 ;
5 Apr.
Phillipps, Edward, of Burbage, Wilts, wid., 27, & Joanc
Stagge, of Easton, Wilts, sp., 20 ; 29 Apr.
Segrim, George, of Mere, Wilts, husb., 27, & Joanc
Taylor, of the same, sp., 26 ; 20 May.
Barnes, James, of Holnest, Dorset, yco., 20, & Joan
Golsney, of the same, wid. ; 25 May.
Banister, Bobert, of Mere, Wilts, mercer, 22, & Elioncr
Perry, of Maiden Bradley, Wilts, sp., 17; Richard Perry,
Elioncr's father appeal's and consents ; 12 June.
Peculiars of the Dean and Chapter of Sarum. 77
llilleard, William, of Covenhaull, in Husborne Tarrant,
co. South., gen., 27, & Elizabeth Sotwell, sp., d. of Aln
Sotwell, wid., of Chute, Wilts ; 15 June.
Scaglethorpe, als. Tinker, Robert, of Bishopston, Wilts,
foxherd, 25, & Jane Clarke, of the same, sp., 18 ; 15 Jul)-.
Troak, Roger, of Bishops Caundle, Dorset, & Agnes
Roberts, of Folke, Dorset ; B'dman, Henry Roberts, of the
same ; 24 Jul}'.
Parnell, Hugh, gent., of Thombury, co. Gloue., 20, &
Elizabeth Good, 18, d. of Mr. Henry Good, Vicar of Wood-
ford, Wilts ; 2 Aug.
Clarke, Henry, of Mere, Wilts, 27, & Judith Snooke, of
the same, wid., 30 ; 15 Aug.
Brodenham, Robert, of Sherborne, Dorset, 30, & Margerie,
d. of James Hely, of Sarum, upholster, sp., 19; B'dman,
James Hely, fa. of Margerie; 5 Sept.
Pady, William, of Mere, Wilts, husb., 27, & Agnes
Branch, of Bavington, Somt., sp., 20 ; 7 Sept.
Holt, Thomas, of Sherborne, Dorset, yeo., 24, & Joane
Colborne, of the same, sp., 24 ; 9 Sept.
Wilson, William, of Sarum, apothecary, 33, & Grace
Strangwayes, gentlewoman, of Muston, in Bere Regis,
Dorset, sp., 25 ; 16 Sept.
Panter, Robert, s. of Hugh Panter, of Knighton, in Bere
Hackett, Dorset, wid., 60, & Joane Browne, of Child Oke-
ford, Dorset, wid., 50; 12 Oct.
Burden, William, of Ramsbury, Wilts, gen. [20 or 30], &
Adrian Phillipps, of Little Ilinton, Wilts, wid.; 12 Oct.
Cooper, John, of Upper Wallopp, co. South., yco., 26, &
Anne Pyle, of Great Durnford, Wilts, sp., 20; 17 Oct.
Chubb, Henry, of Combe Bassett, husb., 28, & Margery
Richman, of the same, sp., 30 ; 2 Nov.
Hcarne, William, of Sherborne, Dorset, mercer, 27, &
Susan Chetmill, of the same, sp., 23 ; 26 Dec.
Hayward, William, of Heele, in Woodford, Wilts, yco.,
27, & Anne Farrant, of the same, sp., 26 ; 27 Dec.
7§
1633/4.
Gregoiy, Wra., of Sherborne, Dorset, cloth worker, 28, &
Alee Phillipps, of the same, sp., 29 ; 28 Jan.
[End of Register of Visitations, etc., 1628-34.]
Decanal Visitations.
Book II, 1635-41.
Turner, John, of Lyme Regis, Dorset, merchant, 21, &
Mary Parret, of the same, sp., 20 ; 12 July, 1638.
Court, als. Parrj*s, Wra., of Glastonbury, Somerset, gen.,
20, & Anne Weeks, of Calne, sp., iS ; 31 July.
Sympkins, Thos., the younger, yeo., 27, & Anne Gough,
of Ogborne St. George, Wilts, sp., 19; B'dman, Thomas
Gough, and Wm. Sympkins, fa. of Win. junr., both consent:
8 Aug., 163S.
Spur, John, of Wokingham, 40, & Mary Lettice, of Hurst,
sp., 30 ; B'dman, John Puiford ; 3 July, 1639.
Smart, John, of Gallon, Dorset, 24, & Jone Churchill, ol
Holnest, 28; Mr. John Churchill, fa. of Jone, consents;
B'dman, Nicholas Covett, of Dorchester ; 4 Nov., 1641.
Harris, als. Hoskins, John, of Netherbury, Dorset, husb.,
24, & Katherine Reeves, of the same, sp., 30 ; 1 1 Nov.
Payne, Geo., of Weston Banfield, Somt., yeo., 24, &
Frances Miller, of Thornford, Dorset, 20; 15 Nov. 1631.
1662-66.
Clement, John, Grove in Wantage, & Jone Winterborne,
then of Letcombe. Berks, 19 years ago; she died, then
Margaret her sister 9 months after ; by Edward Sylvester,
deacon in Wantage Ch. to Mr. Slade, vicar, who agreed to
their marriage ; 5 Sept.
Pope, Ambrose, of Auston L'pthroope, in Blewbury, wid ,
50, & Anne Lewes, of Whitchurch, O.xon., wid., 42 ;
5 Sept.
Peculiars of the Dean and Chapter of Sarum.
79
Gefford, Thomas, of Chardstock, 60, Si Mary Stronge,
als. Parsons, of the same, 50 ; 2 Oct.
Crew, Bartholomew, of Abbotsbury, vvid., 36, & Joane
Servant, of Netherbury, 33 ; 3 Oct.
Michel], Anthony, of Pulham, Dorset, gent., 24, & Hanna
Fisher, ol Sherborne, sp., 20, his sister-in-law; 15 Oct.
1660 (? 1662, as a previous document is dated 15 Oct. 1662).
Dampyer, Tho., of Sherborne, 29, & Mary Wrench, of
the same, sp., 28.
Oake, John, of Sherborne, Dorset, 22, & Mary Pond, of
the same, sp. ; W. Reynold Pond, Mary's fa., who consents ;
22 May 1663.
Garland, William, of Sherborne, Dorset, wid., & Mary
Wickett, als. Winterhay Hermitage, sp., 50 ; 20 May, 1664.
1668, 1669, none.
1674-77.
On a fly-leaf \ pinned into the book : —
This is to certify whom it may concern that David Bown,
of S . . . als, in the parish of Mere, was married to Bath-
sheba Palmer, of Bruton, in the parish ch. of Pitcomb,
according to order from the Lord Bp. of Bath and Wells ;
27 May, 1677. Jo. Penny, Minist.
William Edwards, of Mere, married to his wife at Ansty,
without banns or licence, by Mr. Wordly, a year ago, i.e.,
1676.
Thos. Payne, & Massey his wife, of Ruscombe, clandes-
tine marr. at Yately, eo. South., by Mr. John Waller,
minister here and curate of Sandhurst ; 20 May, 1676.
[ There are no more allegations, the Bonds apparently taking
their place.}
Marriage Bonds.
These Bonds are in various bundles, in a good state of
preservation, but the paper is rapidly becoming dessicated at
the edges, through time. Bundle No. 1 contains from 163S to
So
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
1645, and is contained in two rolls; roll 1 1638-40, roll :
1640-45. The Bonds are roughly arranged in localities, but
not in date order.
Forward, Christopher, the elder, of Mere, Wilts, &
Dorothie Evans, of Maiden Bradley, sp., Mere Ch. ; B'dman,
Christopher Forward, Junr., of Mere, yeo., and John Evans,
of Frome Selwood, Somt., yeo., Reynold Seagrim, of Mere,
husb. ; 1 1 Ap., 163S.
Duck, Nathaniel, & Barbara Browning, both of Ogbornc
St. George, Wilts; B'dman, Edward Ducke, of Marlborough,
barber, Ogborne Ch. ; 14 Ap.
Sansorti, William, clothier, & Elizabeth Chetmill, both of
Sherborne, Dorset; B'dman, Wm. Sansom and Henry
Spicer ; 14 Ap.
Lappidge, Wm., & Winifred Day, both of Shalborne,
Berks [signs "Lapitch"] ; B'dman, James Jenneway, of the
same ; 1 7 A p.
Gingell, Mathew, of Shalborne, Berks, husb., & Anne-
Stock well, of Hungerfofd, Berks, sp. ; B'dman, Thos. Stock-
well, of Shalborne, yeo. ; 17 Apr.
Pye, John, of Axmouth, Devon, yeo., & Jane Phelps, of
Charminster, Dorset, sp. ; B'dman, Richard Phelps, of
Sarum, woollendraper, Charminster Ch. ; 30 Ap.
Holloway, Francis, & Mary Forward, sp., both of Merc,
Wilts; B'dman, Thomas Forward, husb., and Michael
Humfrey, hu^b. ; 2 May.
Downton, Thomas, of Chetnole, Dorset, husb., & Elizab.
Keale, of Leigh, Dorset, sp. ; B'dman, Thomas Aden, ot"
Folke, Dorset, yeo. ; 5 May.
Gardner, Augustine, gent., of Whiteparish, Wilts, &
Edith Rawlins, of Burbage, Wilts, sp. ; B'dman, Thomas
Clarke, of Sarum, woollendraper ; 3 May.
Hutchins, John, of Swallowcliffc, Wilts, husb., 30, &Eliz.
Baberstocke, of the same, 26 ; B'dman, Wm. Baberstocke,
of the same, glover ; 30 A p.
Savery, John, of Ogborne St. George, woollcnwcaver, &
Quakerism in Wiltshire.
Jone Coleman, of the same, sp. ; B'dman, Nicholas Johnson,
of Alderbury, Wilts, yeo. ; 30 Ap.
Gerle, Willm., of Netheravon, Wilts, & Eliz. Longe,
of the same, sp. ; B'dman, John Longe, yeo.. Timothy
Longe, grocer, both of the same ; 7 June.
Stokes, John, of Norton Bavent, Wilts, yeo., & Kentbury
Snellgar, of Hailsbury, sp. ; B'dman, John Stokes, of the
same, yeo., and Rich. Snellgar, of the same, yeo. ; 2 July.
Turner, John, of Lyme Regis, Dorset, merchant, <N: Mary
Parret, of the same, sp. ; B'dman, John Parret, of the same;
12 July.
Sympkins, Thomas, & Anne Gough, sp., of Ogborne St.
George, Wilts ; B'dman, Thomas Gough, of Chisledon, }'eo.,
and Willm. Sympkins, of Cleverton, Wilts, yeo. ; S Aug.
'■/>.-
Edmund Nevill.
40, High Street, Salisbury.
(To be continued.)
QUAKERISM IN WILTSHIRE.
BURIALS.
{Continued from Vol. v, p. 552.)
B {continued).
1742-11-23. — Mary Bond, of Charlcot Monthl}' Meeting, wife
of Edward Bond.
748- 1 1-13. — At Hullington, Isaac Bristow, of Nettleton.
749- 1-3- — At Chippenham, Richard BlLLET, of Chippenham.
749-7-21. — At Chippenham, Catherine Bin. ft, of Chippen-
ham, widow.
749-1 1-15. — At Hullington, Hester Bullock, of Hullington,
widow.
749-12-23. — At Hullington, George Bullock, son of James
and Ruth Bullock.
82
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
1 750-9- 1 6.-- At Pickwick, Elizabeth Beaven, late of Melksham,
wife of Thomas Beaven.
1750- 11-28. — At West bury, Mary Band, of Westbury Leigh,
wife of James Band.
1 75 1- 5-3. — At Chippenham, Betty Baily, of Chippenham.
1 75 1-8-28. — At Chippenham, Rebekah Baily, late of Chippen-
ham, widow of Joseph Bail}'.
175 1-9-10. — At Stanton, Sarah Batten, of Allington.
1751- 9-19. — At Pickwick, Peter Bf.kry, of Fullands, nr. Taun-
ton, son of Peter and Amy Berry.
*i 75 i-io- 17. — At Cain, Ann Bond, dan. of Edward and Mary
Bond.
1752- 1-10, — At Calne, Ann Bond, of Charlcoat, dau. of Edward
Bond.
1752-2-9. — At Pickwick, Joseph Blanchard, of Pickwick.
1754- 2 — . — At Melksham, Thomas Aubery Beaven, son of
Thomas and Eliz11' Beaven, age 2 months.
1755- 4-1. — At Westbury, James Band, of Westbury Leigh.
1756- 2-18.— At Chippenham, Mary Baily, late of Chippenham,
widow of John Baily.
1756- 8-15. — At Lea, Ezekiel Baskervile, of Burton Hill, nr.
Malmsbury.
1757- 4-8. — At Stanton, Mary Bryant, of Sutton Benger.
1758- 11-28. — At Pickwick, George Brundson, of Butlers
Bottom.
1759 -. — At Stanton, Margaret Baker, of Draycot, wifr
of Thomas Baker.
1759- 1-1 1. — At Pickwick, 'Thomas Headley Bennett, son ot
John and Hester Bennett.
1 760- 5-1 8. — At Hullington, William Bristow, of Nettleton.
1760-7-6. — At Hullington, Roger Bullock, son of John and
Martha Bullock.
1760- 9-16. — At Hullington, Isaac Bristow, of Nettleton.
1761- 4-14. — At Devizes, John Barrett, of Devize-.
1761- 8-23. — At Calne, Edward Bond, of Charlcot.
1 762- 1 -1 7. —At Calne, Jacob Bere.
1762-1-15. — At Hullington, John Bullock, of Hullington.
1762-4-16. — At Hullington, Martha Bullock, wife of John,
junr.
Genealogical Notes on the Houllon Faintly. 83
1762- 12-17. — At Redcliff, in Bristol, Sarah Jones Bush, died
at Sutton Benger, dau. of George Bush.
1763- 3-27. — At Devizes, Sarah Beaven, at Devizes, widow of
Roger Beaven.
1764- 6-13. — At Pickwick, Thomas Headley, of Pickwick.
1 765- 2-2 1. — At Melksham, Thomas Baker, of Melksham,
age 27.
* 1 765-10 — . — At Melksham, Miriam Brown, of Melksham.
1766- 2-9. — At Stanton, Mary Batton, of Bradford.
1767- 9-1. — At Stanton, Thomas Baker, of Draycot.
1768- 5-9. — At Calne, Elizabeth Bean, at Cain, widow of Jacob
Bean.
1771-6-23. — At Hullington, Mary Bullock, late of Hullington,
widow of John Bullock.
Norman Penney.
(To be continued.)
GENEALOGICAL NOTES ON THE KOULTON FAMILY.
As the death of Sir Victor Houlton, in 1899, presumably
has terminated the succession of this well-known Wiltshire
family, it may be considered a not unfitting time briefly to
record a few facts relative to its history.
In compiling this short monograph, the writer has laboured
under distinct disadvantage by reason of the omission of an)'
reference to the Ilouitons in the three Visitations of Wiltshire,
and the fact that whatever printed information there is extant
deals solely with one branch — that of Farleigh Castle.
Nevertheless, the family which settled in the county at
the end of the sixteenth century had risen to some importance
by the time of the Restoration, and afterwards so enhanced
its position that several members, beginning with Joseph
Houlton in 1696, were pricked for the office of High Sheriff.
On referring to the pedigree it will be seen that John
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Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Houlton, the founder of the family, had established himself at
Bradford-on-Avon by 1 59 7. 1 He is again mentioned in 1607,
when he is described as being one of the chief inhabitants of
that town.2 His son Robert Houlton, a clothier, is mentioned
in Sir Thomas Phillipps' Freeholders' Book as the owner of
freehold property in Trowbridge. He married, about 1625,
Anne Yorke,3 and by her had a large family. He was a
friend of the Yerbury family, and was appointed an overseer
of the Wills of both Gifford Yerbury1 and of his wife Frances
Yerbury.5 There is little doubt that Robert and his sons
were Roundheads during the Civil War, and after 1662 some
members refused to conform to the Church of England.
It is to be regretted that no Wills belonging to an}' mem-
1 Subsidy Roll, 198/325-336 A. (Kindly communicated by Lieut.-Col.
C. L. Mortimer — a direct descendant of the Edward Mortimer who
married Katharine Houlton.)
2 Wilts Archteological Magazine, vol. i, Xo. 3 (Kingston House, Brad-
ford).
3 Burke, in his Commoners and Landed Gentry, mis-calls Robert,
Joseph. He states that Anne Yorke's father was Recorder and M.P. for
Devizes. This is clearly wrong, as the earliest Yorke who was Member for
Devizes was William, M.P. in 1660. This man was not born until 1608.
He had a sister, Anne Yorke, born circa 1612, but she married Henry
Kemp, of the Inner Temple. An Anne, daughter of Bartholomew Yorke,
of Calne, was born in 1608.
4 P.C.U. Will, 96 St. John. Gifford Yerbury, of Bradford, co. Wilts,
gent. He mentions, his two daughters. Frances and Rebecca Y'erbury (both
under 21): uncle, Wm. Webb; brother, Thomas Yerbury; friend, Hobert
Houlton; son, Gifford Y'erbury (under 21i ; wife, Francis (sic); father-in-
law, Ferdinando Hughes; uncle, Robert Flower, of Littleton. Property in
Conock and Chirton, co. Wilts. Dated 15 Dec. 1630. Pr. 18 Aug. 1631, by
Frances Yerbury, the relict.
P.C.C. "Will, 5 Seager. Frances Y'erbury, of Bradford, co. Wilts, widow.
Son, Gifford Yerbury ; two daughters, Frances and Rebecca Y'erbury (both
under 18) ; supervisors to be Wm. Webb, of Bromham, clothier, Thomas
Y'erbury, of Bradford, clothier, and Robert Houlton, of Bradford, clothier.
Dated 24 March 1632. Pr. 20 Jan. 1633 by Jn. Hughes, brother, and again,
6 July 1652, by Rebecca Y'erbury, daughter, now of age.
' She was daughter of Ferdinando Hughes, of Bromham. See Visita-
tion of Wiltshire 1623. Her son, Gifford Yerbury, was High Sheriff in
1695 — the year before Joseph Houlton.
A Calendar of Feel of Fines for VViltshire. 85
her of the first two generations seem to be in existence.1 In
the absence of these, it may reasonably be contended that
sufficient proof is not given lo justify their inclusion in the
pedigree. It must, therefore, be stated that this information
(and some later detail) has been taken from an MS. pedigree
in the British Museum,2 after having been checked as far as
possible, the Vicar of Bradford having kindly made several
searches for the writer in his Parish Registers.
The main object of these notes being to correct and
amplify the very imperfect and often erroneous pedigrees
hitherto printed, it has been thought unnecessary to continue
the Abstracts of Wills after 1750, and any reader who may
wish to trace the history of Houlton of Farleigh Castle down
to the present century is recommended to consult Burke's
Landed Gentry, which seems reliable from this date onwards.
R. Bouciif.r.
(To be continued.)
A CALENDAR OF FEET OF FINES FOR WILTSHIRE.
(Continued from Vol. v, p. 570.)
Elizabeth.
Hillary Term.
.105. Anno 10. --Thomas Kinge tf/wf Edward Willoughby,
gen., and Agnes his wife ; messuages and lands in West
Gcrardston and Brodchalke. ^40.
406. Anno 10. — John Morse and Robert Wall and
Johannc his wife ; messuage and garden in the parish of St.
Edmund, New Sarum. ^40.
1 Col. Mortimer has made a thorough and independent search for early
Houlton Wills, and confirms this opinion.
2 Add. 3o82-l, being vol. v of Phelps' Somersetshire Collections. This
excellent MS. Pedigree seems to have been overlooked in genealogical
guides. The credit of discovering it is due to the late Capt. J. Crabb
Boucher, of Bath. Further help in the compilation has been freely given
by this gentleman.
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Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
407. Anno 10. — William Lpveday and Henry Bodenham,
arm. ; messuages and lands in Kyngston Deverell.
408. Anno 10. — Edward Stanhope, arm., and John Dec,
gen., and Katherine his wife, and John Peachc, gen. ; messu-
ages and lands in Marleborough, Presholt Manton, and New
Deryestreate. 160 marks.
409. Anno 10. — Robert Straunge, arm., and George
Carleton, arm., and Elizabeth his wife ; manor of Sharncote,
messuages and lands in Sharncote, a/s. Cerncote. ^200.
410. Anno 10. — John Kemblc and Thomas Coke, arm.,
and Juliana his wife ; messuages and lands in Brodblundes-
don, a/s. Brodeblunsden.
Easter Term.1
411. Anno 10. — Richard Myddelton and John Myddel-
ton and John Pool, gen., and Margaret his wife; manor of
Warmester, messuages and lands in Warmester, Fovent and
Upton Skydmore, with the third part of a water-mill in
Warmester and Upton Skydmore. 230 marks.
412. Anno 10. — Robert Keylwey, arm., and Alice Gawcn,
widow, and Thomas Gawen, arm., manor of Norrington, als.
Northington, Molcshulle, als. Mountsorrell, and Ilyrdcote ;
messuages and lands in Norrington, als. Northington, lives-
ton, als. Ilvedcston, Bcrwicke Seynt John, Bridmer, Brod-
chalkc, Burchalkc, Whitparish, Broke Wellowe, Compton
chamble3-n, Ebbcsbornc Wake, Baverstokc, Barford, Ilyrd-
cote and Scnnleigh, a/s. Scmble. ^200.
413. Anno 10. — Francis Whyddon, gen., and Elizabeth
Purdey, widow, John Purdey, gen., Thomasina Purdey,
Margaret or Margery Purdey and Richard Awdeley j messu-
ages and lands in Lanford.
414. Anno 10.— John Hooper, arm., and James Parrani,
and Johane his wife, Simon Atyate and Anne his wife,
These are from the "Notes'", there being no Feel fur this term.
A Calendar of Fat of Fines for Wiltshire.
Edward Shorte and Michael Dove; messuages and lands in
New Sarum. ^400.
415. Anno 10. — William Jordan, arm., and Henry Earl
of Huntingdon, Sir George Hastings, knt., and Dorothy his
wife, manor of Wytley ; messuage and lands in Whytley,
Calne, Cowiche, Cowiche Deane, Compton Bassett and
Bremble. ^280.
416. Anno 10. — Sir John Thymic, knt, and James Hethe
and Elizabeth his wife; messuages and lands in Bugley,
YVarmister, and Corseley. £,40.
417. Anno 10. — John GyrYord and John Hussey, gen.,
and Margaret his wife ; messuage and garden in New Sarum.
418. Anno 10.— John Allen and Robert Somerfeld and
Christiana his wife ; messuages and lands in Maryborough.
419. Anno 10. — Thomas Seyntbarbe, gen., and Thomas
Southe, gen. ; messuages and lands in Humyngton. £_A°-
420. Anno 10. Edmund Saunders, als. Mylles, gen.,
and Roger Gore, arm., a sixth part of the manor of Hayden-
wicke ; messuages and lands in Haydon, 1 laydonwycke,
Rodborne Cheyney, xMordon, and Piirton, als. Pyrton. X*4°-
421. Anno 10. — Thomas Prowte and Roger llorte and
Elizabeth his wife; messuages and lands in Sherstone Pynke-
ney. ^40.
422. Anno 10. Thomas Southe, arm., and Edward
Abarrowe, arm. ; messuages and lands in Swalloxlyve, als.
Swakcley. ^40.
423. Anno 10. — Ralph Wright and Roland Waters and
Ellen his wife ; messuage and garden in Crickladc. J~A°-
424. Anno 10.— William Sympson and John Cole and
Elizabeth his wife ; messuage, and garden in Devizes. ^40.
425. Anno 10.— Thomas Teyntar and Henry Bernard
and Margaret his wife; messuages and gardens in Crickladc.
E. A. Fry.
{To be continued.)
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Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
©times*
Morris Family.— In a recent number of the Ex Libris
Journal was an article concerning- an old book of account of a
•London silversmith of the eighteenth century, in which arc
designs for engraving arms on silver plate; amongst many
examples of these occurs one to Morris, of Broadfield, near
Devizes, bearing the following arms : Sable, a sallirc engrailed
argent, on an escochcon or a cross gules. Burke, in his General
Armory, attributes them to Morris,- of "Wingfield House,
Bath, co. Somerset, 1 770". What family is this, and is Broad-
field the same as Broadleas? Sagax.
Walter Raleigh's Portrait. — In one of his Notes to
Kenilworth, Scott says, quoting from Aubrey's Correspondence :
"In the great parlour at Downton is a good piece, an original
of Sir Walter, in a white satin doublet, all embroidered with
rich pearls, and a might)' rich chain of great pearls about his
neck. The old servants have told me that the real pearls
were near as big as the painted ones. l ie had a most remark-
able aspect, an exceeding high forehead, long-faced, and sour-
eyclided .... his beard turned up naturally, which gave him
an advantage over the gallants of the time, whose mustaches
received a touch of the barber's art to give them the air then
most admired." Is this picture still in existence, and where?
A.
Nobility and Gentry of Wilts (vol. vi, p. 27). — The
following was inadvertently omitted from the list of "Bene-
factors":— Elwes, John, K*., of Standon Hussey; A /ess
over all a bend. Ed.
Notes on Boohs.
S9
Emaciated Figures (vol. iv, pp. 181, 235). — In the south
transept of Southwark cathedral is a curious monument ex-
hibiting a diminutive effigy of a man — an emaciated figure —
in a winding sheet, lying on a marble sarcophagus — William
Emers6n, ob. June 27, 1575, aet. 92.
At the east end of the south aisle of Sanderstead church,
in Surrey, is an effigy of a woman in a winding sheet, lying on
a mat— Mary (ne'e Bedell), wife of Ralph Hawtrey, and Lewis
Audeley, both of whom were owners of the manor, ob. 1655.
A. J. S.
John of Salisbury (vol. v, p. 424). — The following occurs
in a letter (on the authenticity of the Bull Laudabiliter) to the
Guardian, April 29, 1908 : —
Archbishop Ussher quotes from the. Metalogicus (Lib. iv, cap. ult.)
of John of Salisbury, a very intimate friend of Adrian IV, at whose
request the Pope sanctioned the English invasion of Ireland. His
words are :— " It was at my request, too, that Adrian granted and gave
Ireland to the illustrious King Henry of England, to be kept in posses-
sion by hereditary right, as his letters testify to this day He
sent over with me likewise a gold ring, set with an emerald of the
choicest description, as a symbol of investiture, for conveying to the
Prince the right of governing Ireland, and the said ring has hitherto
been ordered to be kept in the archives among the public records of the
Court." Ed.
flotrs on iSoohs.
The Tropenell Cartulary, being the contents of an old
Wiltshire muniment chest, edited by Rev. J. Silvester
Davics, ALA., F.S.A., etc.; in two volumes, published
by the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History
Society, the Museum, Devizes, 190S; with a list of
the subscribers.
This MS. is the best key to open the knowledge 0/ the old
and lost /amities, which is my search. — Aubrey.
The fact that a subscription list, sufficient to justify its
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publication, was immediately forthcoming is sufficient proof of
the interest excited by the announcement that this famous
MS. had been recovered; at the same time it must be a
matter of considerable satisfaction to the Council of the
Society, and particularly to their Secretary, that what they
recommend to their members should be thus approved. To
the subscribers generally, and in an especial degree to Lord
Fitzmaurice and to Mr. Fuller, of Neston, very sincere thanks
are due. The story of its recovery, and of the happy accident
by which it came into competent hands, is recounted in the
preface; as result, a MS. admired by John Aubrey, of which
the loss has been so often deplored, has been transcribed and
edited with infinite skill and patience, and is here presented
in a most agreeable form.
Of ecclesiastical cartularies there is a limited supply ;
of lay cartularies, such as the "Great Cowcher" of the Duchy,
and the book compiled for the Hill family of Spaxton, very
few remain ; nor is it probable that any register will ever
come to light comparable in interest with this volume, in
which a notable man has recorded the turn of his personal
achievement. In 1464, one John Play, clerk, in certain deeds
(ii, pp. 123, 1 24), describes Thomas Tropenell as his cousin
and heir; apart from this reference there is nothing in these
pages to indicate that Tropenell inherited anything at all.
He died possessed of upwards of seven manors, and he-
achieved this result during the least tranquil century of our
histoiy.
Incidentally, we arc introduced to nearly every process
of mediaeval law; there are illuminating passages on mediaeval
morality; the litigiousness of society, encouraged by a multi-
plicity of entails, difficult to ascertain, and almost impossible to
bar, is wonderfully illustrated ; it is, in fact, difficult to study
any single one of the many titles to lands here detailed without
some addition to our appreciation of that expiring mediaevalisni
in which 'Tropenell throve. This is the real merit of the
book ; for the topography of the county it is invaluable, and
Notes on Books. 9 1
there is scarcely any limit to the information — social, economic,
and ethical— to be recovered from it for the study of the
lifteenth century, which is still a dark age. For earlier and
later centuries abundant materials from the public records
are in print, and to those periods accordingly historical study
has been chiefly directed. At present, however, it will be
enough to consider what gives the book its unity, namely, the
problem of Tropencll himself. This enquiry he invites ; he
not only informs his descendants of their title to their lands,
but he informs them whence they came.
Here a question at once arises. These ancient knights,
Sir George, Sir Osbert, and Sir James Tropenell (ii, 163 et seq.)
have left no traces of themselves in printed records. Nothing,
on the other hand, is more obvious than the humble status of
such Tropenells as there occur — a bond-woman at Yatesbury,
a virgater at Whaddon ; the name itself probably belongs to
the class derived from opprobrious or derogatory appellations.
Its occurrence, though not frequent, ranges from York to
Exeter. In the pedigree, prefixed to the second volume, the
editor has incorporated one reference from extraneous sources
to illustrate his text. Walter Tropencll, son of Sir Osbert,
married the daughter of Sir William Percy, lord of Great
ChaKield, a match the subject of some pride to his descendant,
himself the lord of Chalfield and a great builder there. Now,
in the pipe roll for 1195-6 occurs the entry which proves the
existence of this Walter, and informs us that his tithing was
in mercy for the flight of two robbers of sheep, lint is it
really permissible to suppose that a tithing-man was so well
born or had married so high ?
Doubtless, now that this book has called attention to the
matter, mention of the name where found will be noted.
Memorable among them will be John Tropenell, weaver, of
Bradford, in 151^, burned, apparently (History of Salisbury %
p. 223), for heresy. In this list the virgater, mentioned above,
will cut some figure, for it is recorded (p. 163) that Philip
Propenell "departed his londes, and ordeyned to his eldest
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Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
son Roger all his londes, etc., in Whaddon and Combe".
There happens to be a terrier extant (Sanim Charters, Roits
Series, p. 2S4), of the tithes due to Alderbury Church from
Whaddon in 1243, and there we find Roger Tropinell with his
nineteen acres, but neither date nor acreage seem to accord
precisely with the pedigree.
The proof or disproof, however, of TropeneH's statements
is bound up, by his own definite assertion, with the descent
of the manor of Sopworth, which, normally, should be easy of
verification. Sir James TropeneH's daughters divided the
manor. Margaret, and her husband Hugh Parvus, gave their
moiety to Monkton Farleigh. Lucy, and her husband Leonard
Maltravers, handed on their moiety, or most of it, to their
descendants. The lords of Sopworth, in 1316 (Nomina
Villanou), were "Prior de Farley et Johannes Matrevers". It
is clear, therefore, that TropeneH's statement of the pedigree
explains the facts as found in 1316, and it should surely be
possible, either by means of the Maltravers pedigree, which is
confessedly obscure, or by the cartulary of Farleigh, which
appears to be mislaid, to establish his credibility in this parti-
cular, and by inference in the whole.
The pedigree, which he accepted, may well have inspired
TropeneH's ambitions, but it certainly did not furnish him
with the means of gratifying them. It is conceivable that he
had a useful relative in the person of William Tropenell,
citizen and tailor of London (1424), tailor or serjeant of the
great wardrobe at the time of his death in 1432, when Thomas
Tropenell, by Mr. Silvester Davies' computation, was about
27 years of age. His career, and his connexion with the
court — he had the liveries of two kings — may in such ca-c
have coincided with that of his contemporary and future
father-in-law, William Ludlow. But this is pure conjecture.
To whatever cause he owed his marriage, whether personal
qualities, or court or county connexions, it was to his marriage,
we may feel confident, that he was indebted for the control of
capital. His wife's identity is undisclosed, beyond the fact
Notes on Books.
93
that she was Agnes, the widow of Thomas Burton. It
appears probable, however, from external sources, that she
was entitled, in her own right, to lands in Lockington and
Alderton, and possibly in Cowlston. It is an interesting
question whether he had issue by her. There is a release in
1465 (ii, 162) by Thomas, and Christopher his son. His son
and heir Christopher, the issue of his second marriage, must
have been born after 1456, and was actually born, if the
inquisition taken after the death of Thomas is correct, in or
about 1463. Is it possible that so young a lad, or, indeed, any
person under age, would have executed such a release? If
not, Thomas had issue a son Christopher by his first wife,
who predeceased him. The books of Lincoln's Inn mention
the special admission of Thomas Tropenell in 1470, and the
admission in 1482, and the subsequent follies, of Christopher
his son. The first was, presumably, the complimentary ad-
mission to the Society of a better lawyer than themselves,
vide the charming description of him (ii, 541) discussing points
of law at the "Cardynal's Hatte" ; the second was undoubtedly
the admission as student of the young son by his second
marriage, who succeeded him. It is, perhaps, worth men-
tioning here, that as early as 1429 he had been returned to
Parliament for the borough of Bedwin, and in 1449 was one
ol the two members for the city of Bath, the Inst of these
returns being prior to his marriage (in 143 1) to his first wife.
Not content with recording the titles to his purchased
lands, this wonderful man must needs also record whatever
else he could discover having relation to his estates. Thus
the customs of the manor of Corsham, and the charter upon
which they rested, are fully set out. The invaluable chapters
on the customs of Salisbury are similarly due to the stake that
he acquired there as the result of his second marriage.
Tropenell himself informs us (i, p. 274) that he took to
wife Margaret, daughter of William Ludlow,1 lord of Mill
1 An entry in the " Pardon Rolls" of Edward IV :— ' 'Willelmua Ludlowe
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Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Deverill, butler to three kings of England. The editor
(Introduction, p. xi) notes, doubtless on the authority of sonic
document in the collection, that they were cousins. However
this may be, the Cartulary adds considerabty to our know-
ledge both of her family and herself. A strange charter,
copied into the book (i, p. 151), but marked as spurious
(Iln'(f.f note), describes her father as "William Harper", just the
sort of alias to be expected at the time, but it is probable that
the description is merely a blunder, of some not very obvious
kind. He was styled ''William Ludlowe" in 1414, when, as
one of the servitors of the cellar, he had a grant of three marks
a year for life from Carnarvon mill. In 1427 he had a grant
during pleasure, being then described as one of the yeomen of
the cellar, of the office of clerk of the statute merchant in the
city of Salisbury, to be discharged in person or by deputy.
In 1429, he obtained the office of parker of Ludgershall, co.
Wilts, from Queen Joan, confirmed to him in 1432 and 1437.
In 1433, he was deputy in the port of Bristol to Thomas
Chaucer, the chief butler. He had a joint grant with another
in 1434, they being described as the king's servants, of the
office of gauger of the port of Hull. In 1437 he had successive
grants of the office of gauger of the port of London, during
pleasure, and for life. He had a grant, in 1437 also, for ten
years, and in 1440, by the description of "William Ludlowe.
yeoman trayer of the cellar," for life, of the manor and town
of Ludgershall, and in the same year, with another, by the
description of "yeoman of the cellar" of the oiTicc of launder
of Clarendon Park. A brother possibly, Richard Ludlowe,
de Hildeveicll in comitatu Wiltes gentilman alias dictus Willelmus Lud-
lowe nuper de Ludgaisale in comitatu predicto yoman alias dictus Will'
Ludlow nuper valectus celarii H, Sixti nuper de facto et non de jure r< ?i*
Anglie alias dictus Willelmus Ludlowe nuper unus firmariorum vilLe maneru
et doruinii de Pennallowe in commoto tie iVnh n in comital u de Merionm I "
in North Wallia cum suis pertinenciia alias dictus Willelmus Ludlow
nuper gaugiator in civitate London' alias dictus Willelmus Ludlowe nuper
gaugiator in portu ville de Kyngeston super (lull alias dictus Willelmus
Ludlowe, etc. Seal, etc. T. II. apud West in. xviij die Mail [2 E. 4J.
95
had a parallel career, being described in 1 436-1439 as butler,
or yeoman, of the cellar for the mouth.
It was presumably his duties as clerk of the statute
merchant which first brought William Ludlowe to Salisbury,
and there presumably he married. In the pedigree entered
by his descendant at the Visitation of Wiltshire, in 1565, he
is stated to have married Margaret, daughter and heir of
William Rymer, by fas the printed copy has it) his wife,
daughter and heir of William Warnell. It is not difficult to
amend this latter name into "Warrnuell", to identify the
bearer with "William Warmwell", witness to many Salisbury
charters (e.g., i, 213-219) contained in the Cartulary, and to
assume that the Robert Warmwell, who by will (i, p. 23S)
bequeathed tenements in Salisbury to Margaret, then wife of
John Erley, daughter of William Ludlow, and afterwards
('• P- 233) the wife of Thomas Tropcnell, was her uncle or
other near kinsman.
We thus see Tropenell mated for the second time, not
only to the daughter of the 3'coman of the king's cellar, but to
a descendant of citizens of Salisbuiw. Jointl)- with his father-
in-law, apparently, he buys land in the southern part of the
county, and the rise of the family of Tropenell is intimately
associated with the first settlement in the county of the not
undistinguished family of Ludlow of Hill Deverill.
Mr. Flower's valuable appendix (ii, pp. 354-350) of docu-
ments entered in the Cartulary, which occur also among the
public records, establishes the good faith and accuracy of
Tropenell in compiling this register. Of the immense
number of deeds, etc., entered in the Cartulary, by far the
greater number of the originals must long since, however,
have been irrecoverably lost ; and this may well be the
measure of our gratitude to Mr. Silvester Da vies, who lias
transcribed the whole, and prefixed an abstract in English of
their contents. The work, as printed, represents months and
years of patient and most scholarly labour. All this was n
free gift to the Society, to the count)', and to learning.
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Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
The labour of utilizing and elucidating the material thu«
provided must be the work of many hands ; as it proceeds, a
sense of gratitude to all concerned in the production of this
book will be ever on the increase.
A. St. J. S. M.
It is due to the liberality of Mr. Heward Bell, of Seend,
that the above has been printed, the original MS. still
remaining in his possession.
Amongst the mass of interesting matter is a long account
of the foundation of the City and Cathedral of New Sarum, a
history of the Tropenell family and its connexions, with the
blazon of their coat-armour ; we think the writer may be mis-
taken in denying the relationship of Percy of West Chalfield
with Percy of East Chalfield, because the arms of the one
were ua feldc of ' Ermyn, the chief of gowks, with a lyon passant
of gold crowned with azure in the chief in a wyndowe at Atte-
warde's churche", and those of the other differed only in
having the lion argent and uncrowned ; the latter coat beinur
thus differenced perhaps to distinguish two branches of the
same family.
Many names of trades, and numerous place-names, can be
gathered from its pages. We also learn the names of several
constables of Trowbridge Castle, with their dwelling, "the
logge-place, otherwise called a syte with a gardyn, and a wey
to the same by the space of vii fote of brede"; this office seem--'
to have been attached to the Manor of East Chaldfield, and
was not infrequently a subject of contention.
It is to be devoutly hoped that the issue of this cartulary
will encourage some one to print that of Edington.
Copyright.
(EBtltfiijtrc jBtotcs anU (Queries,
SEPTEMBER, 1908.
SIR WALTER RALEIGH'S PORTRAIT.
(See p. 58.)
jplM/ HIS portrait is in the National Portrait Gallery,
fc The circumstances of its purchase, which you may
;/? perhaps deem worth recording, have been kindly
/5^?V communicated to me by Mr. E. P. Square}-, of The
Vji>> Moot, Downton. He writes: — "You ask me for
my knowledge of the portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh by
Zuchero, which was formerly in the Parsonage Manor Mouse,
at Downton. My first remembrance of it was at least sixty
years since, when it was hanging in what is now the
dining-room of that house, which was then owned as lessee
and occupied by Mr. John Gibbs Bailey. I understand that
it had been removed from the 'Great Parlour' mentioned in
Aubrey's reference to the picture.
" The Raleighs were copyholders, under Winchester
College, of this house and some lands in Elizabeth's reign.
Sir Carew Raleigh1 resided there, and his brother Walter,
then rising into fame, was, doubtless, a visitor; the por-
trait was painted when Sir Walter was 34 years old (the
1 He heads the Pedigree entered in the Visitation of Wilts, 1023,
edited by Dr. Marshall.
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date is on the picture), and remained in the Manor House til]
it was sold, by Mr. John Gibbs Bailey, in the year 1S57 or
1858, to the Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery,1 where
it now is. Mr. Sydney Herbert (afterwards Lord Herbert 0!
Lea), who had been a pupil at Downton Vicarage, knew the
picture, and, when Mr. Bailey desired to sell it, the late Mr.
James Rawlence, of Wilton, mentioned the circumstance to
him. Mr. Herbert, knowing Lord Mahon, who was the leader
in the establishment of the National Portrait Gallery, informed
him of it. The late Sir Charles Eastlake, President of the
Royal Academy, saw it at our offices in London, and at once
bought it for the Gallery fur ico guineas. Sir Carew Raleigh
represented Downton in Parliament from 1st to 21st James I.
The copy of the picture, in my possession, is in 'pastels' and
was made after its purchase by the Trustees of the National
Portrait Gallc}', by their permission. The frame in which my
copy of the picture is hung is the original frame in which it
existed in the Manor House. I am happy in having so
excellent a copy of the portrait of a really great man, whose
family were connected with Downton." J. J. H.
Raleigh of Downton (IV. A. & (J., ii, pp. 90, 01). — For
the elucidation of the Raleigh query I should have thought
some Salisbury subscriber to the Wilts N. & O. would have
sent you the Raleigh entries from the Downton Registers,
for the subject is of wide interest.
Here are the following notes made several years ago
when I lived in Wilts. I trust they will stimulate someone to
1 By the kind permission of Mr. Lionel Cust and Mr. Emery Walker,
we are enabled to use it as an illustration. On the top dexter side if
painted AMOK et VIRTUS : on the t< p sinister side is painted
iETATIS SVJE 34
AN 1588
the above is repeated below with somewhat different lettering. According
to the Catalogue it is"probably by Federigo Zuecaro .... half length,
standing figure, face three-' manors to the left Panel, 353 i"- *'.v
2i>$ in."
Stokes.
99
trace this branch of the family to its present representatives, -
if possible : —
Parish Register of Idmiston, Wilts: —
1655. Lucie Raleigh, ye daughter of Mr. Raleigh, of Downton, was
buried in Idmiston, ye first day of August.
1697. Fiances, the. daughter of Carevv and Mary Ra\vlie, was
baptised December the 31st, 1697.
[1711, Nov, 5. Mrs. Mary Raleigh, widow, was buried. J.S.H.]
Parish Register of Chute, Wilts :—
1696-7, 9 Feb. Mr. Carevv Raleigh, of Kensington, and Mrs. Mary
Young, of Idmiston, were married by license.
This Mai^ Young was daughter and heir of Richard
Chandler, Esq., of Idmiston, and was baptised there 14 August
1670. She was married first to John Young, and the Idmiston
Register records : —
1693. Richard Chandelere, posthumous son ot John and Mary
Young, was baptised 26 April.
I have not seen Idmiston Registers beyond the year
1702. R. G. Bartelot.
STOKES.
(Continued from p. 57 J
[Chancery Proceedings, Collins, before 17 14. Bundle 451, No. 3.]
MerRyweather contra Stokes.
The answers of the defendants, John Caspar Keiling and Abjohn
Stokes, to the bill of complaint1 of John Mereweathcr, gentleman.
Abjohn Stokes believes it to be true that by indenture, 14 March,
»9 Charles II, a.d. i 666, between Edward Stokes, in the bill named,
and Elizabeth his wife, deceased, of the hist part, Abjohn Stokes,
his son, deceased, father of the defendant, and Anne his wife,
mother of defendant, of the second part, and John Taylor and John
Hulbert, deceased, of the third, and Michael Naish and Henry Rogers
ol the fourth part, the said Edward Stokes for a competent jointure to
1 The Plaintiff's lull is missing.
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IOO
the said Elizabeth, and in consideration of the marriage of Abjohn
Stokes with the said Anne in consideration of £1,200 paid for lln
marriage portion of Anne, covenanted with M. Naish and I I. Rogers that
he, Edward, and Elizabeth, should, before the end of Hilary term next
following, by fine sue cognisance de droit to John Taylor and J. Hulbert
convey the manor house or capital messuage of Titherton Lucas, cu.
Wilts, with lands, etc., to the intent that a recovery might be had
thereof, that is to say concerning that half of the capital messuage ol
farm house of Titherton, called the new building with a garden and the
moiety of the orchard, and all that pasture ground called Steeple House
Leaze and Howling Alley, and the closes called House Field, Little
Leaze, Broadtield Breaches, etc., and a coppice with appurtenances in
the parishes of Titherton Lucas and Langley Burrell, to the use of
Edward Stokes for life, then to the use ot Elizabeth his wile for life for
her dower, and after her death to the use of Abjohn Stokes, defendant's
father and heirs male of his body begotten by said Anne for lack of
issue to the heirs male of said Abjohn, the father, with remainder to
right heirs of Edward Stokes forever; and concerning the closes. Great
Mead Leaze, Starr's Close, 9 acres of meadow in West Ham, in
Titherton Lucas, to the use of Edward Stokes for life, and alter his
death to the use of Michael Naish and Henry Rogers their executors
and assigns in trust for the term of 99 years, and after the expiration ol
the term to the use of Abjohn Stokes the elder and his heirs male, and
for default to the right heirs of Edward Stokes ; and concerning the
rest of the capital messuage and lands, and the closes called Calves
Close, Dat Close, GassotVs, Bull Mead and Hamborn, Long Mead,
Warr's Leaze, and the Heme Ground, to the use of Abjohn, the father,
for life, and after his death to the use of Ann Stokes his wile, lor her
jointure, and concerning other parcels of property at Titherton to the
use of Abjohn Stokes the father, for life, and on his decease to the use
of Michael Naish and Henry Rogers, their executors and assigns for 99
years, in trust then to the use of the heirs male of Abjohn Stokes the
father, and for lack of issue to the right heirs of Edward Stokes, the
said terms of 99 years being limited that the said Michael Naish and
H. Rogers should out of the premisses, by the rents and protits and
fines for leases or sale out right for the said term, or part of the term,
or of parcels thereof, should raise portions for the daughter or
daughters of the said Abjohn Stokes the elder, to be paid on their
majority or day of marriage, and lor the raising of £420 lor their
maintenance until they came of age, and lor the defraying of any
expenses incurred by said M. Naish and H. Rogers in the performance
ot the trust. Further, Abjohn Stokes the defendant saith that ln>
mother*s fortune worth £10,000 being spent, Abjohn Stokes the lath''1
for payment thereof, by Indenture 12 December 167S, between him and
Anne his wife on the one part, and the said Henry Rogers and Willi. uu
Dyer of the other part, for barring all former estates and for rai
S/okts. i o i
fifSOQ to pay a debt, and in consideration of the personal estate he had
received with his wife, and for providing a jointure to her in lieu of a
foritier jointure covenanted by fine sue cognizance de droit, that he
would convey to them, H. Rogers and W. Dyer, the capital messuage
of Titherton Lucas, then in possession of Abjohn the elder, various
parcels of property mentioned. lying in Titherton, Chippenham and
Lawley Burrell, to the use of sa;d Rogers and Dyer and their heirs
; >rever in trust to raise out of specified parcels of the said property
sufficient sums by sale or otherwise for the payment of the debts of
Abjohn Stokes the elder, and for the payment ot their own expenses in
the execution of their trust, this being done the remainder of the said
parcels to be surrendered to hira to whom the remainder expectant
belonged; the part of the property unsold to be held by them to the
use of Abjohn Stokes the defendant and the heirs male of his body,
and for lack of issue to the right heirs of Abjohn Stokes the
elder, and the properly limited fur a term of ninety-nine years in the
former indenture to Michael Xaish and H. Rogers for uses therein
expressed after the expiration of the said term to be in trust to the use
of Abjohn Stokes the defendant, and his issue male, and for lack ot
issue to the use of the heirs male of Abjohn the father, begotten by
Anne his wife, or for default to the use of the heirs male of his body or
of his right heirs. And by tins indenture it is granted between the
parties that the several terms of 99 years in the lands, etc., before
limitted to Michael Naish and H. Rogers, should be upon this further
trust above the trust expressed in the former indenture, that in case
Abjohn Stokes the defendant, or any other heir male of Abjohn the
lather,, on the body of the said Anne, should happen to live, yet,
notwithstanding, M. Xaish and H. Rogers should, out of the premisses,
raise a sum not exceeding /" 1.200 for the portion of the daughter or
daughters of Abjohn Stokes the elder, as he should appoint by Ins last
wili, to which for more certainty the defendant refers himself, as it is
not now in his possession.. Further the defendant, Abjohn Stokes,
quotes sundry indentures of lease and mortgage of tiie manor of
Titherton Lucas, and parcels o( the property made between his father
and himself and Richard Stokes <>: Calne, gentleman, ar.d other persons,
tor the raising of various sums. Besides the foresaid indentures he
knows of no other settlements and conveyances made by foresaid
Kdward Stokes, Abjohn Stokes the elder, or Anne Ins wife, for any
trusts or uses than hereinbetore or after mentioned by him or the other
detendaut, John Caspar Kejiing. Me further says that true it is that
Abjohn his father had only one daughter, Mary, the complainant's wife,
but what discourses passed between the complainant ai d Abjohn the
elder, touching Mary's portion, he knows not, nor doe- he know that his
lather was indebted to her in a bond for ^50 given to her by her friends
or other sum, or that he gave any bond to her, or promised her ,/"i,2oo
chargeable on his estate by virtue ot the saft£ 'dee&s, out he hath often
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heard him say that he would "not give her a farthing lor that she had
very much disobliged him", but he hath heard that his father entered
into a recognizance in this court to pay ^"200 for the use of the said
Mary, given to her by relations, "but by whom otherwise then the sum
of ^50 given her by the will of her uncle, INI r. John Stokes, he cannot
set forth"; and that by the marriage agreement between his father and
the complainant the former was to pay ,£300, to be vested in trustees,
to the use of Mary in full satisfaction of all claims which she and the
P complainant might make on him on his estate, but when the complainant
tendered him a bond for the payment thereof he refused it, because he
had already entered the recognizance abovesaid for payment of ^200,
and another for payment of another £100. A suit being begun against
him the defendant's father was necessitated to agree that the com-
plainant should receive the profits and rents of Water Leazc, Long
Mead, and Great .Mead, part of the estate at Titherton Lucas, at
the rate of ,£44 per annum, which three closes lie (Merrywether)
enjoyed for about twelve or thirteen years following, but he knows
of no deed executed for that purpose. By litigation over these
matters the complainant put his father to heavy charges, but he does
not know what was decreed. And this defendant further saith that lie
(Abjohn the younger) never desired his lather to live in the house at
Titherton where he formerly lived, and never forced him out of doors
as falsely alleged in the bill. For what time his father and his man
were boarded by the complainant he cannot tell, but he knows that he
did board with him, and may have ridden his horse, but does not know
that the complainant was employed as a sollicitor in his business. The
last wile of Abjohn Stokes the elder was buried with money raised out
of said Abjohn's goods, and he believes the complainant was at no
charge for "physitian, apothicary, or chyrugeon" in his father's sickness,
nor does he believe that his father used the kind expressions towards
the complainant as mentioned in the bill, nor had he an)- reason so to
to do, having been sued and prosecuted by the complainant with the
utmost rigour and unkindness. Whether his father told the com-
plainant of the agreement between him and the said Richard Stokes,
in which J. G. Keiling had an interest, he does not know, lie does not
know of the conveyances, alleged in the bill, made by his lather to the
complainant ol property therein mentioned, because it was settled
before (as above said) by Edward Stokes, father of Abjohn the elder,
and by the later indentures quoted by the defendant. The defendants
Abjohn Stokes andJ.G. Keiling say that II. Rogers, W. Xaish, and
W. Dyer are dead, and they do not know where are their h< irs,
executors, and assigns. The hay left by the complainant in the three
closes was eaten by the cattle because he neglected to cany it off.
Abjohn has not the deeds recited in his possession, if he had it could
1 Elizabeth Vehticned in one of the deeds of mortgage.
Stokes. . 1 03
Ik- proved that the property was entailed as he maintains, and that his
lather had no power to charge the estate as set forth. He and
|. G. Keiling only base their title by the deeds already set forth.
J. G. Keiling details agreements between himself and Abjohri Stokes
the elder, for payment of sums of money for the said Abjohn the elder,
and other negociations between them at different times concerning
the mortgage of some of the property. Abjohn the father died on the
5th or 6th February 1706. And these defendants deny all combination,
and hope that they shall not be compelled to make any further answer,
etc., and humbly pray to be dismissed this court.
[These answers were taken, and the two defendants sworn,
9 May 1709, at Titherton Lucas.]
[Chancery Depositions. Collins, before 1714. Bundle 129, No. 11.]
Merryweather 7'. Stokes.
[Depositions taken at the White Hart, Chippenham, on behalf of
both the defendants and the plaintiff, 7th April 1712.]
Jeffery Matthews, of Bowood Park, co. Wilts, carpenter, aged 70,
knew Abjohn Stokes, deceased, Anne his first wife, and Elizabeth his
second wife; by Anne he had two sons, one dying in infancy, and
Abjohn the heir-at-law, and a daughter, Mary, wife of complainant
Mereweathcr. Abjohn, defendant, has three children, and Mary has
issue, but how many he knows not. He often heard Abjohn the elder
say the portion of Anne his first wife amounted to /"S.ooo,1 part in lands,
part in money. The money raised by sale of her lands was converted
to the proper use of Abjohn Stokes, deceased, the part which consisted
in money other than the said sale was paid to Edward Stokes, Abjohn's
father, on his relinquishing to Abjohn the greater part of the estate at
Titherton Lucas ; he believes he spent her fortune in waste, payments
of debts, and prosecuting many : lie was present at the agreement
between Abjohn and J. Mereweathcr, and heard that the latter was to
have ,£300 with Mary, and the three closes as security. Abjohn, some-
time before or after the marriage, read to the deponent a bond of ^500
penalty, executed by Mary, the daughter to Abjohn (the conditions he
cannot remember) which he saw Abjohn lock up in his escritoire, and
since then Abjohn informed him the bond had been taken out, and he
suspected his daughter, the complainant's wife. John Mere weather,
since his marriage, had sold much of Abjohn's cattle, corn, fat oxen, etc.,
off the estate at Titherton, worth about £450, he and Anne hi-- wife lor
some time boarding with Abjohn the father, at Titherton. and that Mary
had a child born there and christened, "at which time great entertain-
ments were there made" at her lather's charge, and before her marriage
he had maintained her in very good and rich apparel], and had maids in
1 Another witness bays £10,000.
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his house to wait upon her many years, and gave her very good educa-
tion, all this costing him about ^50 per annum.
Hugh Matthews, of Kedhill, in the Liberty of Bowood Park,
aged 43, says that Anne, the first wife, died about 14 or 15 years sire-
There was "a difference" between Abjohn Stokes the elder anil the
complainant, because as the latter alleged his father-in-law would not
pay Mary's marriage portion, and Abjohn mortgaged the three closes to
him for security. He heard Abjohn the father complaining of the
breaking open his escritoire and the taking of the bond (as above).
' Abraham Angel i, ot Stanley, co. Wilts, deposes much as the fore-
going, also mentioning the theft of the bond executed by Mary, being
in the penalty of £600 conditioned with payment of £500, The
complainant owed money to Abjohn the elder for the sale of corn, etc,
from Titherton Lucas.
Richard Stokes, of Calne, gent., aged 43. deposes lengthily and
much to the effect of the answer of defendant Abjohn Stokes, as to the
various mortgages and leases and negotiations between himself and the
two Abjohn Stokes, and suits brought by the complainant Mereweather
against his father-in-law Abjohn the elder.
John Edwards, of Chippenham, deposes as to the extravagance ol
Abjohn the elder, the mortgages to Richard Stokes, and the quarrels ot
complainant and his father-in-law, and the boarding of Mereweather
and Mary at Titherton, and Mary's "genteel" keep before marriage.
Other deponents witness as to leases and debts and the other
matters above mentioned.
Witnesses examined on the part of the complainant.
Richard Stokes, gentleman, formerly examined on behalf oi the
defendant Abjohn Stokes, says he very well knew Abjohn Stokes,
deceased, and that he was a man of very fickle and uncertain tempt ;,
and would usually speak fair to people's faces and abuse them behind
their backs, especially such people to whom he owed any moneys, or
was any ways indebted to; he has often heard him declare that he
not owe money to people when at the same time he was really irrdebt<
to them, as this deponent hath good reason to believe. He was a vain
man, and did usually in his conversation endeavour to represent himse 1
in such a manner as he thought would make himself look great in the
world.
The other witnesses depose as to signatures, and the handwritii
of deeds produced to them, and as to the dates of the deaths ol J" • ■
Taylor, Michael Naish and Henry Rogers (named in the trust deeds
quoted by Abjohn Stokes, defendant).
[C11 anc e ry Deposit i ons. ]
[Collins, before 1714. Bundle 126, No. 4.]
Merry w eat her and Stokes.
[Abstract.] Depositions oi Witnesses in behall of John Merry-
Stokes. 105
weather, complainant against Abjohn Stokes,. }. G. Keiling, J.Townsend,
and Thomas Andrewes, taken 16 January 10 Anne, at the sign of tire-
New Inn, Bradford, co. Wilts.
John Bithasea, of Trowbridge, aged 37, deposes that lie has known
J. Merryweather for 16 years, knows Abjohn Stokes, deft., but not other
defendants, and knew A. Stokes the father. He knew Edward Sly, now
deceased, a witness to various deeds made by Abjohn Stokes the elder,
and verily believes that Edward Sly subscribed as a witness to a paper
writing, dated 4 February 1706, signed A. Stokes, purporting to be a
will, and heard him say on 30 January 1709, that said paper was executed
by A. Stokes, and that he set his hand thereto as a witness. Abjohn
Stokes, deceased, for a considerable time boarded with complainant
who kept a horse for Abjohn's use, and "it was reasonably more than
forty pounds per annum to table or bord said Abjohn Stokes, deceased,
and his man servant, and his horse beast in snch manner as com-
plainant kept them. And for that said Abjohn Stokes loved strong
drink, and to drink plentifully thereof." And Abjohn being under fear
of arrest for some proceedings at law complainant asked this deponent
to board him or to find some friend to do so; accordingly he procured
him board at a friend's house in Somersetshire for six months, and
complainant promised payment for the same, but complainant and
deponent having other dealings together have not yet accounted for
such boarding. Abjohn died at the house of complainant, who carried
him in a hearse to Titherton, above 11 miles distant, and buried him
"in a very commendable manner", at what costs he knows not.
William Sartain, of Broughton Gifford, maltster, aged 60, knew
Thomas Hood, whose name is subscribed as a witness to a bill
obligatory, dated 16 Oct. 1688, signed A. Stokes, now produced, said
Thomas Hood being his brother-in-law and deceased 111 the king's
service at a hospital in Ghent about 18 years ago, and that he was well
acquainted with his handwriting and believes the signature to be his on
this and another bond.
Martin Slade, the elder, and Martin Slade, the younger, of Hilper-
ton, and Solomon Spragg, of Hilperton, make similar depositions with
regard to signatures on the bonds, etc., produced.
Stephen Orrell, of Corsham, and other persons make similar
depositions with regard to signatures of witnesses, and of Abjohn
Stokes and the witnessing ot the writing purporting to be the will.
Robert Plaisted, of Titherton Lucas, yeoman, very well knows the
three closes, Warrs Leaze, Long Mead and Great Mead Leaze, which
tor many years have been let at yearly rent of £44. and for some years
at rent of £^1\ he believes them to be worth £44 including taxes.
Complainant possessed them in the summer of 1706 and lor several
years previously, and he looked alter them as bailiff to complainant lor
many years. And in 1706 Merryweather lett the after-feeding ol said
closes to 1)111' Thomas Cooke until 8th January 170G, when Abjohn
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Stokes the defendant made an entry on the same, and put in a man
and colt and lucked the gate, and advised deponent not to meddle ai \
more with the closes, for there would be trouble in the matter, a I
Abjohn the son cut the grass there and enjoyed the same until ousti '
and complainant cut down another part of the hay grown there;
Abjohn's tenant is now in possession; at the time of the death < i
Abjohn senior there was about 27 or 2S tuns of hay in rick, and that
he sold about 18 tuns for complainant, paying him the money, and Isaac
Williams, servant of the defendant, pulled down -part of the rails, and
defendant's tenants' cattle eat and spoiled the residue, which lie
believes was worth 20.?. the tun.
John Fido, of Hilperton, clerk, aged 39, deposes that he was with
Abjohn Stokes the elder 3 or 4 days before his death and on the day ol
his death, when he prayed with him, and that Abjohn was of perfect
mind and understanding, and "behaved himself decently and humbly
like a Christian".
Anne, wife of William Petticary, of Trowbridge, clothier, aged 22,
deposes as to her signature as witness before her marriage, to deeds
subscribed by Abjohn Stokes the elder, she signing under her name
Anne Meriwcather. She lived at the complainant's house at the time
of Abjohn's last sickness, and he was sensible and of sound mind and
behaved "like a good Christian".
Walter Webb, of Bradford, Robert Mitten, of Hilperton, depose
as to the witnessing of bonds and deed, etc., of Abjohn the father,
and as to the latter's boarding and burial at expense of complainant
as above. R. Mitten says that at the time of sealing them he was
very sensible and ol' perfect mind and judgment, and "amongst other
discourses [Abjohn] told this deponent that he could not meet with any
ale that he could relish or taste and askt this deponent if he had any
that was good, and this deponent went home and fett to the said Abjohn
a tankard of this deponent's ale which the said Abjohn drinkt off, and
said he liked it very well and it pleased him better than any beer he
had drinkt in his sickness".
Ebjohn Mereweather, of Hilperton, gentleman, aged 18, deposes as
to the handwriting of Abjohn in the deeds and signatures of the wit-
nesses, and says that he, Ebjohn, is a witness to the paper purporting
to be a will, dated 4 Feb. 1706.
[Chancery Depositions.]
[Collins, before 17 14. Bundle 126/37.]
Merryweather contra Stokes, etc.
[A&Sfract.] De-positions on behalf of defendants. — Deposition- ol
Anne Petticary, wife of William Petticary, formerly Anne Mereweather,
and Robert Milton and John Mereweather, all formerly sworn and
examined on the part of the complainant. Plaintiff did pay some
The Chrysom Book of St. Thomas, Xew Saruni. 107
money to Abjohn Stokes, deceased, in his lite time as the consideration
money mentioned in a parchment writing ot lease and release dated
respectively 2 Feb. and 3 Feb. 1706, according to A. Petticary, but the
others say not. Mitten never heard the writings nor the will read so
does not know their contents, and he doth not know that said Abjohn
appointed by will or writing ,£"1,200, or any other sum. to be paid to his
daughter or daughters begotten lawfully of Anne his wife. John Mere-
weather does not know ot the appointment of £.\ .zoo or other sum for
(he daughter or daughters; he witnessed the will dated 4 Feb. 1706,
which was executed at Hilperton, in complainant's house. At the time
of executing the will, complainant offered to have read the will and the
other writings executed there, unto the said Abjohn, but the latter
saying he was very well satisfied therewith or to that effect, they were
not read, and this deponent has never heard them read, nor knows
their contents.
(To be continued.)
THE CHRYSOM BOOK OF ST. THOMAS, NEW SARUM.
(Continued from p. 60.)
From the feaste of tlianutiation of our Ladyc to the feast
of Saint John the baptise, 1581.
Win. Smithes wife churched the 28 of Marche 15S1, her crisome,
od., her offeringe, ob. qr. [the child is buried]; Thomas Raves wile
churched the 30 of Marche, her crisome, 6d., her offeringe, hd. ; Thomas
Pounes wife churched the firste of Aprill, her crisom. od. . her offeringe,
hd. [the child is buried]; John Doule unto Am. is Simkoxe, widowe, the
3 of Ajirill, his offeringe, \\d. ; Win. Cobhames wife churched the 15 of
Aprill, her crisom. 6?/., her offeringe, z<l. ; Kychard Haines wife churched
the 16 of Aprill, her crisome, 4//., her offeringe, Id.; Ryehard Jemes
wife churched the 16 of Aprill, her crisome, 4V., her offeringe, \\d.\
Alexander Honnsdenes wife churched tin; 22 of April!, her cr:-"m, 6d.,
her offeringe, 2d. ; Jemes Asshe his wile churched the 22 of Aprill. her
offeringe, id. [the child isded]; Mathew Maylerdes wife churched the
2401" Aprill, her offeringe, \\d. [the child is dedd]; Robert Rowes wile
churched the 26 of Aprill, her crisome her oflfering, qr. ; Ryehard
Rarnes wife churched the 26 of Aprill; Nickles Stickeley unto Klltujr
Houllbeme the 29 of Aprill, his offeringe, \\\d.\ Anthony Popes wile
churched the 9 of Maye, her crisom, 6//., her offeringe, qr. ; Kychard
Sommeres wife churched the 11 of Maye, her crisom, (*/., her offering,
ob. qr. ; Win. Lanckefords wife churched the 13 of Maye, her crisom,
10S Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
/\d., her offering, id. ; Water Beliyes wife churched the 29 of Mayc. ! •
crisome, Gd., her offeringe, G\d. ; Ollyver Poucll unto Rachel] Havelou !
the 5 of June, his offeringe, y\d.\ Edmund Mullinax unto Margen 1
Berriat, ye daughter of Waulter Berriat, 6 of June; Harrie Strognell.
wife churched the 10 of June, her crisom, Gd., her offeringe, 3^/. ; Humfi ■
Dyton unto Marie Ward the 12 of June, his offering, iii.v. ob, qr. : Win.
Clarkes wife churched the 14 of June, her crisom, $d., her offeringe, if/.;
John Huttchines wile churched the 14 of June, her crisome, 4'/., In
offeringe, \d. ; Edward Mathewes wife churched the 17 of June, he:
crisome, 6d., offeringe, \ld. Sum, xm\ x\d. ob. cjr.
From the feast of Saint John Baptise to the feast of
Saynt Michaell tharkangell, 158 1.
Robert Heathe unto Ann Mondye the 24 of June, his offering, yl. ,
Hewe Sketes wife churclied the 26 of June, her offering, ob. qr. \\\:
child is buried]; Richard Batts wife churched the 29 of June, neither
offering nor crisom [the child is dedj ; Cristofer Tomsones wife churched
the 28 of June her crisom, ^d., her offeringe, \\d.; the Taylores offering*:
the second of Julye, iiij. vid.; Mr. Cristofer Wickes wife churched the
3 of July, her offering, gd. [the child is ded]; Wm. Hannones wil
churched the 10 of Julye, her crisom, 6d., her offeringe, 2\d.\ Thomas
Pouldones wile churched the 12 of |uly, hir crisome, 5c?7., hir offring*',
id.; Edward Hill, dwellyng with Robeorde Grafton, and Marye Powr
maryed the 16 day of Julye, and there offeringe, iiii</. ob. ; \<
Waulteres wife churched the 17 ol Julye. for hir crisome, Gd., lor hsr
offring, id. ; Thomas Rogeres unto Allse Garnise the 24 of Julye, h -
offering; Wm. Writes wife churched the 24 of Julye, her crisom, A'-' •
her offeringe, i\d. ; Wm. Nobles wife churched the 27 of Julye,
crisome, Gd., hir offeringe, 2d.; Thomas Daviss wife churched the 2S 1
July, her crisom, $d.t her offeringe, id. ; Edward God fries wife the 7 <'
Augost, her crisom, 8'/., her offeringe, 5.W. ; Thomas Koutche unto Am
Appellforde the 12 of Augost, his offeringe, i\d. ; Nickeles Huttofes wil<
churched the 12 of August, her crisome, Gd., her offeringe, ^hd.\ Mi-
Cater churched the 14 of Augost, her crisome, Gd., her offering, -
Harri Grenes wife churched the 19 of Augost, her crisom. Gd., In'
offeringe, 2\d. ; Jorge English unto Amie2 Edwards, widow, married tin
21 of Augost, his offering, viid. ob. qr.; Nickles Stickleyes wile churcl 1
the 26 of Augost, her crisom, Gd., offeringe, \d. qr. ; Hew Mortim«»r<
unto Annis Crew, widow, the 28 ol Augost, Ins offering, \\d.\ Nickt<
Annsilles wife churched the 28 of Augost. her crisom, Gd., her offering*'
2\d. ; Thomas Ellyetes wife churched the firste of September, \w
crisom, Gd., her offeringe, .\<l. cjr. ; Hew Jones' unto Susan Daniell w»'
5 ol September, his offeringe, \\d. ; Win. Furnelles wife churcln I
Agnes, P. It.
- Amies, r. It.
3 Joyce, P. H.
The Chrysom Book of St. Thomas, New Sarum. 109
11 of September, her crisom, 6d., offeringe* \d.\ John Chi vers unto June
Kyrbye, widowe, the 14 of September, his offeringe, ixd. ob. qr. ; Robert
Staplers wife churched the 14 of September, her crisom, 4^., her
offeringe, \d. ', Hew Wodsonn unto Catterne Barned the 17 of
September, his offeringc, v\d. ; Win. Roberts wife churched the 18 of
September, her crisom, 6c/., her offeringe, 4'/. ; Cristofer Craftes wife
churched the 18 of September, her crisom, 6d., her offeringe, 3W. Sum,
x.\\y. ob.
Rs by me, Symon Neall, the 20 October 15S1 , this sum of xxs. ob.
Wyllyam Akeryes wyfe churched the iSth daye of July, her chrisom
and her offring and Smyths wyfs, "jd. cja.
From the Feast of Saynt Michael 1 the archangell to the
byrth of Crist, 1581.
Robert Smithes wife churched the first of October, her crisom, 6d.,
her offeringe, id. qr. ; Win. Tharleyes wife churched the 2 of October,
her crisom, "]d.y her offeringe, 5.^/. qr. ; John Pressies wife churched the
4 of October, her crisom, 6d., her offeringe, id.; John Vennerd unto
Marie Wottone the 8 of October, his offeringe, \os. Sd. (a very large
amount) ; John Pille unto Amable1 Edwardes the 9 of October, his
offeringe, xxd. ob. qr. : Mrs. Peter Heywardes wife churched the 15 of
October, her offeringe, 14'/., her crisom, \d. ; Wm. Kyrbyes unto
Elisabetli Leye the 16 of October, his offeringe, i\d. qr. ; Hew Jones
wile churched the 21 of October, her crisom, y/., her offeringe, \d. (jr.;
Hew Tomsonne unto Jone Ellyet the 22 of October, his offeringe, 4s. ;
J ernes Klarke wife churched the 23 of October, her crisom, 6//., her
offeringe, \d. qr. ; Harrie Rickmanes wife churched the 2301' October,
her crisome, 4^., Iter offeringe. Id. qr.; John Hores wife churched the
27 of October, her crisome, 6d., her offeringe, i\d. ; Thomas Whoperes
wife churched the 2S of October, her crisom, 6d.t her offeringe, f^d. qr. ;
Cakrie [sic] Lymenes wife churched the 28 of October, her offeringe,
$d. (the child is dedd) ; Rafe Tyse [?] wife churched the 3 of November,
her offeringe, id. [the child is dedd]; John T. meres wife churched the
6 of November, hir cresom, 6d., liir ofering, ihd.; George Grene unto
Margerie Kemer the 9 of November, his ofering, g\d. ; Wm. Prides wife
churched the 15 of November, her crisom, Gd., her offeringe, id. ; Symon
Neles wife churched the 18 of November, her crisom, 11/, her offeringe,
5^. qr. ; John Mat hew unto Klsebeth Kyngman the 19 of November, Ins
offeringe, i'us. uu</. ; Edward Noble unto Maude Bele the 20 ol November,
his offeringe, $d. ; Thomas Daniel! unto Maudlyne Tra vise, widow, the
27 of November, his offeringe, \\d. qr. ; Wm. Eyres wife churched the
30 of November, her crisome, 6d., her off., id.\ Edward Tychbornes
wife churched the first of Desembcr, her offeringe, 5^. qr. [the child is
1 Annabel!, P. R.
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ded] ; Ouene Wallise his wife churched the 4 of Desember, h, -
crisome, 5^., her offeringe, \d.\ Edward Chapiine.unto Em Bee the .<
Desember, his offeringe, is. 6hd. qr.; John Thornberies wife churched
the 5 of Desember. her offeringe, i\d. [the child is ded]; Jyles
Waulteres wife churched tiie 6 of Desember, her crisome, 4//., hoi
offeringe, yi. ; Thomas Tytchbornes wife churched the 9 of Desember,
her crisome, %d.% her offeringe, 6hd. : Robert Robert? wife churched the
13 of Desember, her crisome. 6d.. h.er offeringe, 'Sid. : Wm. Finies wile
churched the 17 of Desember, her ensom, 6d., her oferinge, 6','/.;
Thomas Barnes unto John Catiars wyife (name, Elizabeth), I2d. Sum,
xliiy. viiid. cb. cjr.
Rs the 22 december by me, Symond Xeal'e, for this quarter, the
sum of xliiy. viiid. ob. qr.
Pd for ix li. of candles, xxiid. ob.
Edmund Nfvill.
(To be continued.)
GENEALOGICAL NOTES ON THE HOULTON FAMILY.
(Continued from p. 85.)
131 Cottle.1— John Houlton, of Bradford, co. Wilts, clothier.
Wife Jane; two dans.. Margaret and Jane (both under 21); son John
(under 21), to whom he leaves land at Melksham ; friend -Mr. Edw.
Beker, of city of London; two bros.-in-law, Mr. Jacob Selfe and Mr.
Issac Selfe ; bro. -in-law Edw. Mortimer: bros.. Nathaniel and Joseph
Houlton.
Dated 9 Sept. 16S1. Proved iS Nov. ioS2, by Jane Houlton, the
relict, and Jane Houlton, the younger dau.
125 Hare.1— Jane Houlton,- of Bradford, co. Wilts, widow. To be
buried in Bradford parish church near husband, John Houlton; son
John Houlton; sister Selfe, of Benacre ; brother Isaac Selfe and his
wife; sister Jeffreyes, sister Guppey, and sister Bacon; two daus.,
Margaret and Jane; brother Jacob Selfe, and Richard Guppey, gent.,
to be Overseers.
Codicil of same date.— Col. Edward Beeker, of city of London, and
his wife; brother Nathaniel Houlton and his wife; sister Whitchurch ;
brother Joseph Houlton and his wife; brother Edward Mortimer and
his wife.
1 For a somewhat longer abstract of this will, ?ee 11'. X. x (J., vol. iv,
p. 4 1G. There is a pedigree of Selfe in the same v^l ime.
2 She was unmarried on 20 Sept. 1663. See thaneery l*roecctVn\t/s
(1GS0), Reynardson. 7 7 - r» 7 , Houlton v. Crabb.
Genealogical Noics an the Houlton Family.
1 1 1
Dated 22 May 16S2. Proved 16 Oct. 16S4, by Jacob Selfe and
Richard Guppey.
40 Eedes. — John Houlton, of Seend, co. Wilts, Esquire. To be
buried in chancel of church in Seend under the Communion Table.1
£3 to poor of Seend ; son John Houlton all "books, pistolls, and guns";
property in Bradford, Trowle, and Wingfield, co. Wilts, and house at
Seend to Francis Randolph, of Wooly, Bradford, gent., and Richard
Guppy, of Sandridge Hill, co. Wilts, gent., in trust to sell for education,
etc., of children, John, Nathaniel, Joseph, and Alary Houlton (all under
2i); uncle Joseph Houlton mentioned. To each of his sisteis and
trustees a gold ring.
Witnesses :— J. Selfe, Sam. Selfe, Amb. Awdry, Harman King.
Dated 22 July 1704. Proved 22 Feb. 1705, by Richard Guppey.
Archdeaconry of Sarum, 1730.
Mary Houlton, of Seend, co. Wilts, widow. Three sons, John
Houlton, Nathaniel Houlton, and Joseph Houlton, f\o each and 2.0s.
each to buy mourning rings; two sisters, Henrietta Maria Odgar2 and
Arabella Boucher,3 7.0s. each to buy mourning rings; residue to daughter
Mary Houlton, who is sole executrix. To be buried at Seend.
Witnesses :— Ambr. Awdry, A. Awdry, A. Awdry, jun.
Dated 7 Apr. 1725. Proved by Mary Houlton, dau. ot Mary Houlton,
late of Melksham, co. Wilts, 18 Sept. 1730.
469 Simpson. — John Houlton, of Corsham, co. Wilts, Esquire.
Brother Nathaniel Houlton, ,£50, on condition "that he doth not in any
way molest or interrupt my sister Mary Husey in the peaceable and
quiet enjoyment of the lands and premises I have by this my will given
her for life" ; very worthy ffriends Paul Methuen, of Corsham, aforesaid,
Esquire, and Edward Montague, of Notion, in Wiltshire, Barrister-at-
Law, two guineas apiece to buy themselves a mourning ring as a token
of the great {friendship that always subsisted between us"; to Mr.
1 In the Chancel of Seend Church are monuments with Arms to John
and Mary Houlton, as also to their son-in-law, Dr. George Husey ; they all
seem to have been buried in the chancel, under inscribed flat stones, now
represented by small brass plates ; the only grave under the Communion
Table contains two children of Commissioner and Captain Schomberg,
R.N., 1 70S ; perhaps the Table may at that time have stood in the centre,
or on the steps of the Chancel. (Genealogist \ iii, 318-19; and N. S., iii,
245.)— Ed.
2 Wife of Peter Odgar or Otger, esq. They were married at St.
Alphage, London Wall, London, 11 Feb. 101)8/0.
3 Wife of Wm. Boucher of the Middle Temple, and of the Close,
Sarum, gent. He is almost certainly the 11 Mr. Boucher" mentioned in the
diary of Thomas Smith of Shaw House (1721/2.) (See WiUi Archaeological
Magazine, vol. xi.) She was buried at Kishcrton Anger, •» Feb. 17(53, 1.
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Willshire Notes mid Queries.
Richard Boucher,' steward to the said Paul Methuen, £\o, Rapin's
History of England, in folio, etc. ; Mrs. Jane Kington and Mrs. Elizabeth
Thresher, both of Nottoti, 2\s. each: to Mr. Richard Fiddes,3 of city
of Salisbury, library of books ; Mrs. Elizabeth Jones, n of Salisbury,
widow, £5; to cousin 'Richard Boucher.1 eldest son of Mr. Richard
Boucher, gold watch with all its seals and chains; to Joseph Ward, oi
Bath, toyman, gun, etc. ; to Edward Montague and Richard Boucher, the
elder, "all th<: my messuages, lands, tenements, and farm called
Tanhouse farm and my estate called the Clears", in Melksham and
Secnd, in trust for sister Mary Husey for life, and then to Richard
Fiddes, of Sarum, and Richard Bourcher [sz'c], and Samuel Bourcher,'
the two sons of trustees, equally between them as tenants in common ;
residue to sister.
Witnesses: — Simon Crook, John Foster, Tho. Harford.
Dated 16 Oct. 1764. Proved 24 Dec. 1764, by Mary Husey, widow,
the sister.
P.C.C. Admon., 1741.
On 29th July 1741, administration oi goods, etc., of George Hussey,
late of Trowbridge, co. Wilts, was granted to Mary Hussey, widow, the
relict.
258 Collins.— Mary Hussey, of Corsham, co. Wilts, widow. To
be privately buried without pall-bearers at Seend, co. Wilts, in same
grave with deceased husband : she is to be carried to the grave by six
poor men ot Seend parish, to each of whom she gives one guinea. To
kinswoman Mrs. Elizabeth Jones, of Salisbury, widow, annuity of £0,
wearing apparel, etc. To Arabella Fflddes (daughter of said Elizabeth
Jones) annuity of £6. To Mrs. Margaret Boucher,0 daughter of Mr.
William Boucher,7 late of Salisbury, deceased, ^20. To Miss Arabella
1 He was fourth son of t tie above Wm. and Arabella Boucher. Be
died in 1789 or 1 790, aged 7!) or 80.
* Son of Rev. John Fiddes, D.D., by Elizabeth his wife, a dau. of above
Wm. and Arabella Boucher.
a See note 7. She married — Jones as her second husband, and died
in 17S1, aged 82.
1 Afterwards of Marlborough Mount. Manchester, Jamaica. A custos
and a member of the assembly of that Island, lie died in 1832, aged 7G,
and was buried at Mandevillc, Jamaica.
' Be died 15 Oct., and was buried at Corsharo, 21 Oct. 1788, aged 29,
leaving one son.
"She died unmarried, 19 Jan. 1824, aged 80, and was buried at
Bemerton, co. Wilts.
7 Eldest son of Win. and Arabella Boucher. He was buried at Benier
ton, 11 Nov. 1770, aged (J7.
Genealogical Notes on the Houlton Family. 1 1 3
Dorothea Lockman (daughter of Mr. John Lockman,' late Secretary to
the British Fishery), £10. To servant Joanna Howard, annuity of £5,
some furniture, £10, etc. Residue to kinsman Richard Ffiddes, of City
of New Sarum, lie to be sole executor.
Dated 6 Apr. 1776. Signed " Mary Husey."
Witnesses :— Hon. Merewether, Wm. Dalmen.
"An Inventory of goods bequeathed to my servant Joanna Howard "
then foilows. Proved at London, 6 May 17S0, by Richard Fiddes.
7S Lane.— Robert Houlton,2 of Middle Chinnock, co. Somerset,
clerk. Son Robert (under 21), executor of brother Benjamin Houlton
his uncle. Daughters Elizabeth and Mary and son John (all under 21).
Two brothers. Mr. Win. Slade, of Warminster, and Mr. Win. Bleek, of
same. Property in Warminster. Wile Mary Holton (sic).
Dated 24 Dec. 1707. Proved 1 Apr. 1709.
144 Lane.— Benjamin Houlton. ot Warminster, co. Wilts. Brother
Robert Houlton ; sister Anne Bleek and her children Anne, Elizabeth,
Robert, Wm., and John Bleek ; sister Jane Webb and her children Jane,
Wm., Hester, Benjamin and Elizabeth Webb: friend Mrs. Elizabeth
Xaish and her two sons.; kinsmen Thomas Webb and Edward Slade.
son of John Slade. Property in Warminster to Robert Houlton, junior,
son of brother Robert, he paying ,£200 to Benjamin Webb, when 21.
Robert Houlton, junior, to be executor.
Witnesses : — Edward Sanger, Edward Waight, Will. Wansbroug.
Dated 7 May 1705. Proved 25 June 1709. by Wm. S'.ade and Wm.
Bleek, Robert Houlton being a minor.
43 Bolton. — Wm. Slade, of Warminster, co. Wilts, gent. Twenty
half-crowns to twenty poor housekeepers of Warminster. Property in
Warminster. Hannah Slade, brother's widow; niece Elizabeth, wile of
Edw. Davies, /500. etc; niece Ester Crabb and her children Wm. and
Elizabeth Crabb: Wm Crabb of Road; nephews Michael and Wm.
Potticary, and niece Elizabeth Potticary; John, one of sons of John
Slade; Edward Slade, shearman; sisters Bieek and Jane Webb;
Robert Houlton, son of brother Robert Houlton, ^50; Mary, wife of
Wm. Wansbrough; other legacies ; a white marble tomb to be set up
in church near cousin Wm. Wilton's pew. He mentions that he was
born 20 May 1652. Residue to nephew John Slade, son of Edward.
Friends Mr. John Bennett, of Small Brooke, and Mr. Wm Seaman, of
Upton SkidnK'i e, gent., to be Trustees.
Dated 25 Feb. 17 19. Proved iS Feb 1723. by John Slade.
1 By his wife, Mary, another daughter of ab >ve Wm. and Arabella
Boucher. He was a Poet. He died 2 Feb. 1771. aged 7.:.
-See Chancery Procecdint/s, Collins, before 171 1, 606-195, year 1681.
K. Boucher.
(To be continued.)
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Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
RECORDS OF WILTSHIRE PARISHES.
ERCHFONT WITH STERT.
The following deeds relate to the tything of Stert before
the Manor became finally vested in the Warden and Scholars
of New College, Oxford ; some of those of a later date, by the
kind permission of the owners, have been abstracted from the
very handsome Cartulary at New College.
Domesday [Vol. I, f. 70b.]
Wiltshire, Lands of Humfrey df L'Isle.
Humfrey himself holds Sterte. Aluric held it in time of
King Edward, and it gelded for 5 hides and a virgate and a
half with appendages. The land is 3 carucatcs. Of it arc in
demesne 4 hides; and there are 3 ploughs and 6 serfs and 15
bordarcrs, and one Freeman having a virgate and a half.
There are two mills returning 8s. and 30 acres of meadow and
10 acres of pasture and 2 acres of wood. It was worth 1005.,
now it is worth 6//.
Tf.sta df. Nevill. I Pp. 141, 156.]
Walter [dc Dunstanvill] holds a knight's fee in Sterte of
the lord King.
Walter dc Dunstanvill holds in demesne the vill of Sterte
in chief of the King, and it belongs to his barony.1
1 For the Bnrony of Walter de Punstnnvilte, ride p. 167 of Testa de
Nevill.
Records of Wiltshire Parishes, - 115
Hundred Rolls. Cal., pp. 235, 236.
[Chapter House Hundred Roll. 39 Henry J II.]
a.d. 1254-55. — Hundred of Stokfolde. — Walter dc
Dunstanvill holds a whole knight's fee in Sterte by serjeant}-
to Castle of Devizes, and it is worth 10//. yearl}', and he
returns yearly in time of peace 205., and in time of war he
ought to be in the same castle for 40 days as a knight, and
then he shall be quit of foresaid 20s.
Borough of Devizes. — Walter dc Dunstanvill owes 205.
yearly in time of peace towards the Ward of Castle of
Devizes for this land in Sterte.
Inquisition Post Mortem. [54 Henry III, No. 10.]
a.d. 1270. — Inquest taken at Castelcumbe Saturday next
after Purification of St. Mary, 54 Henry III. Jurors say that
Walter of Dunstanville died on Tuesday next after feast of
St. Hillary in abovesaid year, and that he was seized in his
demesne as of fee of manors of Cumbe, Cullerne, Hurdecote,
Hegtredeburi, and Sterte, which is worth 22//. and 155.
Petronil, daughter of said Walter, is his nearer heir, and she
will be of the age of 22 years on day of St. Peter in Cathedra,
and that Robert de Montfort has taken her to wife. That
Walter owed for foresaid lands service of 3 knights ; that all
the tenants are free and pay a certain rent yearly at four
terms of Easter, Feasts of the Nativity of St. John the
Baptist, St. Michael, and St. Thomas the Apostle. He had
also advowsons of churches of Combe and Colcrne.
Hundred Rolls. Vol. II, pp. 252, 273, 274.
[Roll 3, Edward I.]
a.d. 1274-75. —The King receives yearly for the ward of
his Castle of Devizes 205. from Sterte.
Petronill de Montefort holds manor of Sterte of the
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Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
King in chief belonging to the barony of Combe, but by
what fee or service the Jurors do not know.1
The WW of Sterte, which is in the hand of Dame
Petronill de Montefort, ought to pay to the King at the two
sheriffs turns yearly 45., and it was withdrawn for 10 years
and more by Walter de Donstrevile.
Elyas Cotel, sub-eschaetor of Wilts, seized manor of
Sterte into King's hand after death of Walter de Donstrevile
about the feast of St. Hillary, 54 Henry III, but they [the
jurors] do not know how much he received therefore.
Placita de Quo Warranto. [Calendar, p. 801 ]
[P/eas at Wilton, 9 Edward /, /'/; the Oelaves of Easter.}
a.d. 1281. — William de Gyselham, who prosecutes for the
King, demands against John de la Mare and Petronill his wife
4s. rent, with appurtenances in S:erie.:
And John and Petronill by her attorney, come and say
that their men of Stert were wont to pay the 4s. to the
sheriffs turn twice a year in Hundred of Stodfolde. And
they well understand that Walter de Dunstanvill in his time
did not promise that the foresaid men should return the said
45. And because they understand the 45. ought to be paid to
the King, they grant that as much as in them is the men ol
Stert shall for the rest return the 4s. at the sheriffs turn in
Hundred of Stodfold. Therefore the King has his seizin
thereof, &c. And the sheriff is bidden to answer for said 4s.
at the Exchequer.
Lay Subsidy, Wilts, 196/4. [Colleetions of Seutage, 28-34.
Edward I.]
a.d. 1 299-1304. Hundred of Chippenham. — From ;>
knight's fees which John de la Mare holds in Combe, Colcrn,
1 Inquest for the Hundred of St otfolde, taken at Wilton, Friday next
before feast of St. Gregory, Edward I.
3 Printed in the Calendar "Sterre."
Records of Wiltshire Parishes.
117
llcghtredcbury, Ilerdccote and Stertc, and other manors held
of the barony of Castlccombe — 18s. [?]
Patent Roll. [2 Edward II, pi. ii, ;;/. 2.]
a.d. 1309. — Licence for William dc Mont Fort to grant in
fee to Bartholomew de Badlesmerc reversion of manors of
Ideshale and Addrcdclcs, co. Salop, and of Combe, Colerne,
Heghtredebury, Sterte, and Ilerdccote, co. Wilts, held in
chief, on death of John de la Mare, of Bradewell, tenant for
life by the law of England. T. R., at Chester, 30 June.
Patent Roll. [5 Edward II, pt. ii, m. 16.]
a.d. 13 1 2. — Grant to Bartholomew de Badelesmcre and
Margaret his wife, that on the death of Bartholomew that
reversion shall remain to his heirs of the castle and manor of
Chilham, co. Kent, and the manors of Rcdclingwcldc, Kynge-
ston, Hatfield, and Whitstaplc, and 705. o\d. rent in Dover,
and 40//. rent in Chinglesford, co. Essex, together with the
hundreds, etc., pertaining to the castle, etc., on the death of
Alexander de Balliol, tenant for life in right of Isabella his
sometime wife, the castle, manor, and rents reverting to the
king on Alexander's death being forfeited by Isabella's son,
John Earl of Asceles (Athol), for felony. In exchange
Bartholomew de Badelesmcre grants that the reversion of the
manors of I Ieghtredbury, Colerne, and Steurte, co. Wilts,
with their hundreds, knights' fees, etc., granted to him and
his heirs by Win. dc Montfort, on the death of John de la
Mare, tenant for life of those manors which were of the in-
heritance of the said William, shall remain to the king. But
Bartholomew de Badelesmcre and Margaret his wife, if they
survive John de la Mare, arc to hold these manors for life, and
life of survivor of them. Dated at Berwick-on-Twecd 1 5 Jul}'.
By privy seal.
Inquisition Post Mortkm. I5 Edward J/, No. 69.]
a.d. 1312. — Inquest taken at New Sarum, 26 Ma}-,
4 Edward II, to inquire into the value, etc., of the manors of
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Hcghtredebury, Colerne, Steurle, and Herdccotc, co. Wilts,
held by John de la Marc for life of the heritage of Bartholomew
de Badlesmere, the reversion thereof belonging to said
Bartholomew, and certain lands in Heghtredebury which
Bartholomew had acquired from Gilbert de Clare, Earl of
Gloucester ; which manors and lands in Wilts, with other
property, the said Bartholomew de Badelesniere and Margaret
his wife desired to exchange for estates in Kent and Essex,
lately held by Alexander de Balliol of the heritage of Isabella,
of Dover, his wife.
Sterte. — Jurors say that in manor of Sterte is a court
with garden curtilage and vines worth yearly 13s. 4c/. The
rent of free and customary tenants is 4S5. 2.\d.} of which 205.
ought to be paid to the Castle of Devizes, and thus there
remains clearly 28s. 2hd.% and 1 lib. of cummin worth id.t and
15 geese worth 14s. \hd. The customary tenants give of
Churschot S7 fowls worth 7s. yi. The pleas and perquisites
of court, with fines and heriots, are worth yearly 13.S. <\d.
The several pasture there is worth yearly 60s. Two groves
there are worth yearly in pasture, with sale of underwood,
3s. 4</. The grass-hearth1 of villeins is worth yearly 55. The
tallage of the serfs is worth 6s. Sd.
The works of customary tenants within manor arc worth
yearly 100s. 1 id
There arc in demesne of arable land 246 acres worth
yearly 18//. 10^., and 5 <S ^ acres of meadow for mowing worth
yearly 1 1//. 14s.
No advowson of a church belongs to said manor.
Sum of the value of the manor of Sterte, 42/;$. 75.
Close Roll. [7 Edward II, m. 6d\
a.d. 1314. — Enrolment of release by Robert de Montfort,
son of Sir Robert de Montfort, to Sir Bartholomew de
Badelesmcrc of his right in manors of Castclcombe, Colerne,
1 Grasia — Service of the tenants.
Records of Wiltshire Parishes.
119
Steorte, Heghterdebury, and Herdecotc, co. Wilts, and in
manors of Ideshale and Addcrdclcye, co. Salop and Chester,
which Bartholomew has of gift of William de Montfort, late
brother of releasor, by fine levied in king's court. For this
release Bartholomew paid him 400/. Witnesses, Sir Robert
Fitz Payn the elder, Henry de Urtiaco, Richard Love!, John
de Erlegh, Matthew de Clivedon, William Malherbe, Walter
de Paveby, Adam Walram, John de Moke, Walter de Sky-
demor, knights, Richard de Rodenye, and others named.
Dated at Wodeton, co. Dorset, Sunday, morrow of St.
Thomas the Martyr, 7 Edward II.
Memorandum that said Robert came into chancery at
Westminster, on Thursday after Invention of Holy Cross
next following, and acknowledged aforesaid deed.
Patent Roll. [8 Edward J I, pt. 7. ;;/. 15, schedule.']
a.d. 1314. — At request of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of
Gloucester and Hertford, deceased, and of Henry de Lacy,
then Earl of Lincoln, the King lately granted to Bartholomew
de Bad.lesmere and Margaret his wife reversion of all lands
and tenements held by Alexander de Balliol in right of his
late wife Isabella [as in Patent, 5 Edw. II, pt. iif m. 16] in
exchange for reversion of manors of Heghtredebury, Colernc,
and Sterte, co. Wilts, with all l ights and privileges on death
of Bartholomew and Margaret; now Alexander de Balliol
having lately surrendered said property, and John de la Mare
being now dead, so that said manors in \ V i U 5 are in hands of
Bartholomew and Margaret, the King accepts the exchange,
confirming to said Bartholomew and Margaret castle and
manor of Chilham, and other property in Kent and Essex
[as in patent quoted], promising satisfaction to all claimants
touching their claim in the premisses, said manors of
Heghtredebury, Colerne, and Steurte to revert to the King on
deaths of Bartholomew and Margaret. T. R., at York,
6 October. By the King.
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Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Charter Roll. [9 Edward II, pars unica, no. 57.]
a.d. 1316. — The King grants to Bartholomew de Badcles-
mcre1 and his heirs forever free warren in all his demesne
lands in Chilham and elsewhere, co. Kent, Bourne, co. Sussex,
Ideshale, etc., eo. Salop, and in Castclcombe, Colerne,
Heghtredebury, Sterte, and Ilerdecote, co. Wilts, and else-
where in England. Dated at Thunderle, 12 August. By the
King himself.
Charter Roll. [15 Edward II ', no. 11.]
a.d. 1322. — The King grants to Hugh le Dispenser the
elder, whom he has made Karl of Winchester, estates in
Gloucester and Wilts, belonging to various enemies and
rebels, among them the manors of I leghetredebury, Knouk,
Castclcombe, Stert, Colerne, and all lands and tenements in
Orcheston, with the appurtenances, which belonged to
Bartholomew de Badelesmere, likewise the King's enemy and
rebel, with ,£"20 yearly from issues of Southampton, and with
all knights' fees, advowsons, etc., liberties and free customs to
said manors, castle, etc., belonging, fur life, and after his
death to Hugh lc Dispenser the younger and his heirs.
Dated at York, 10 May. By writ of privy seal.
Original Roll. [20 Edward //, rot. 9. J
a.d. 1326-7. — The King commits to Margaret, formerly
wife of Bartholomew de Badlesmcrc, custody of manors ol
Sturte, Castlecombe, Heghtredebury, and Colern, with appur-
tenances and property in Orcheston and Hurdecote, and halt
1 Bartholomew de Badelesmere joined Thomas, Earl of Lancaster,
against the King and his favourites, Tiers Gaveston and the Despeiisers.
On the defeat of the Karl, Badlesinere, like his leader, suffered death. He
was beheaded and his head set on the gates of Canterbury, because he was
the seneschal of our lord the King'', says the sentence condemning him.
The writ for the process against him is dated 2(j March, lf> Edward II.
(Vide Chancery Miscellaneous Kolls, Bundle 17, no. \.)
Records of Wiltshire Parishes.
121
the manor of Knouk, with appurtenances in co. Wilts, and
manors, etc., in Salop, Bucks, and Kent.
E. M. Thompson.
{To be continued.)
PECULIARS OF THE DEAN AND CHAPTER OF
SARUM.
(Continued from p. Si.)
1638.
Court, als. Parry s, John, of Glaston, Somerset, gent., <S:
Anne Weeks, of Calne, sp. ; B'dman, John Williams, of
Calne, weaver; 31 May.
Pyle, Edmund, of Upper Wallopp, co. South., yeo., & Jone
Hartford, of Heele, in Woodford, Wilts, sp. ; B'dman,
Richard Ellyott, of the same, blacksmith ; 25 Jul)'.
Escott, Thomas, & Margerye Kinge; B'dmen, John King,
of Horningsham, Wilts, glover, and Thomas Kinge, of
Fisherton, inholder ; 6 July.
Page, William, of Great Bedwin, & Barbara Brewer, of
Little Bedwin, sp. ; B'dmen, John Phillips, of Marlborough,
gent., & Wm. Cocke, of Sarum, inholder ; 22 Aug.
Cary, George, of Burbage, yeo., & Mary Boldinge, of
Great Bedwin, wid. ; B'dmen, Thomas Towsey, of Marl-
borough, yeo., and Andrew Roberts, of Sarum ; 1S Aug.
Napper, John, clothworker, & Magdalene Danyell, sp.,
both of Sherborne, Dorset; B'dman, Nathanaell Danyell, of
the same ; 1 2 Sept.
Duckc, Roger, fuller, 24, & Frances Bishop, both of
Calne; B'dman, Edward Duck, fuller, of the same. Seals:
(1) In an oval a slag couched: (2) /// a circle, "J/. IV";
19 Sept.
!
122
Duckc, Edward, of Calne, jun., fuller, 26, & Susan
Spundy, sp., 21 ; B'dman, Roger Duck. (In the allegation
she is called Jane, not Susan) ; 19 Sept.
Chaundler, Robert, of West Harnham, gent., 40, & Susan
Haydoek, of the Close, Sarum, sp., 20 ; B'dman, Francis
Parry, of the Close, gent. Seal: a /ess between three mas-
clcs ; 19 Sept.
Garrett, Thomas, of Mere, Wilts, & Jonc Phipp, of the
same, sp. ; B'dman, Henry Phipp, of Gillingham, Dorset,
lynnen weaver ; 12 Sept.
Chappell, Guy, of Fordington, Dorset, cS: Alice Curme, of
Stratton, Dorset, sp. ; B'dmen, John Bayland, of Dorchester,
Dorset, parchment maker, & John Paty, of Long Burton,
Dorset ; 28 Sept.
Trewe, John, of the Close, Sarum, yeo., & Margery
Norris, of West Tydderly, co. South., sp. ; B'dman, Henry
Wilkinson, of the Close, gent. ; 16 Sept.
Brooke, John, of Calne, Wilis, butcher, & Honor Holt,
of the same, wid. ; B'dmen. Thomas Parr, of Calne,
carpenter, and Edward Willis, of Sarum ; 14 Aug.
. Adams, Richard, of the Close, Sarum, hush., & Anne, als.
Agnes, Hitchcockc, of the same, sp., at the Cathedral ;
B'dman, John Gauntlett, of Sarum, gent. Seals: (1) /// a
circle a fleur-dc-lys ; (2) In a hexagonal border a lion ram-
pant; 10 Oct.
Style, William, of Hornishani, Wilts, husb., & Edith
Gwyer, of Mere, Wilts, sp. ; B'dman, Randoll Gwycr, of
the same, husb. ; 2S Nov.
Blanchard, Charles, of Wivelsford, Wilts, shepherd, &
Jone Dawlingc, of Great Durnford, sp. ; B'dmen, John
Blanchard, of Wrivelsford, shepherd, and Henry Dawlingc,
of Gt. Durnford, shepherd; 3 Dec.
Coles, John, of Sutton Poyntz, Dorset, husb., & Mary
Cuthrington, of the same; B'dman, Henry Attey, of Brea-
more, co. South., wheller; 8 Dec.
Rogers, George, of Mere, Wiits, lynnen weaver, & Eliza-
Peculiars of the Dean and Chapter of Sanuii.
123
bcth Forward, of Stoke Trester, Somt., sp. ; B'dmcn, John
Rogers, of Merc, lynnen weaver, and Thomas Forward, of
Stoke Trester, lynnen weaver ; 31 Dec.
Hewitt, Thomas, of Mere, Wilts, taylor, & Margaret
Coleman, of the same; B'dman, Henry Hewitt, of Sarum,
inholder ; 1 6 Jan.
Robbins, Arthur, of Calne, Wilts, husb., & FUyoner
Synnett, of the same, sp. ; B'dmcn, Win, Haskins, of Calne,
yeo., and Thomas Woodward, of Sarum, brewer ; 26 Jan.
Harris, Walter, of Chardstock, Dorset, wollen weaver, &
Christian Paul, of the same, sp. ; B'dman, Richard Harris,
of the same, wollen weaver ; 26 Jan.
Stibbes, William, of Bowden, in Ilcnstridge, Somt.,
clothier, & Agnes Foster, of North Wotton, Dorset, sp. ;
B'dman, William Foster, of the same, \'eo. ; 19 Mar.
Rowdon, Henry, of the city of London, merchant taylcr,
& Mary Parker, of the Close, Sarum, sp. ; B'dman, Sylvester
Pope, of Sarum, tayler ; 16 Feb.
White, John, of Sherborne, Dorset, fishmonger, &
Ellyoner Michell, of the same, sp. ; B'dman, John Martin,
of Sarum, weaver ; 19 Feb.
1639.
Gibbons, Richard, of Trowbridge, Wills, lynnen weaver,
& Dorothy Coleman, of Mere, sp. ; B'dman, John Lc\vi>, ot
West Knocll, lynnen weaver ; 16 Apr.
Harvy, John, of Bcamihtcr, Dorset, saylcr, & Margaret
Harris, of the same, sp. ; B'dman, John Fildiew, of Way-
mouth ; 10 Apr.
Silke, Wm, of Calne, Wilts, wollen draper, & Mary
Eastmcad, of the same, sp. ; B'dman, Stephen Warren, of
Fisherton Anger, inholder ; 22 Apr.
Lamlce, John, of Combe Bissett, blacksmith, & Elizabeth
Titcombc, of Warminster, wid. ; B'dman, John Ban n ton, of
the same, haberdasher ; 2 May.
Westly, Robert, of Haitsbury, & Julian Reynolds, of the
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Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
same, sp. ; B'dmen, John Reynolds, of the same, blacksmith,
and Robert Edmonds, of Sarum, fuller; g May.
Barrowe, James, of Woodford, yeo., & Margery Hayward,
of the same ; B'dman, Willm. Hayward, of the same, yeo. ;
20 Ma)'.
Spur, John, of Wokingham, Berks, hush., & Mar)' Lcttice,
of Hurst, Berks, sp. ; B'dmen, John Pulfard, of Wokingham,
shoemaker, and John Bcnnct, of Sunning, Berks ; 1 July.
Norris, Thomas, the younger, 20, s. of Thos. Morris the
elder, & Elizabeth Goddard, 20, of Ogbornc St. George ;
B'dmen, Wm. Goddard, of the same, fa. of Elizabeth, and
John Hammond, of Marlborough ; 3 May.
Coxe, John, of Lyme Regis, yeo., & Elener Billing, of
Pinnie, in Axmouth, Devon, sp. ; Chardstock Ch. ; 26 July.
Ingram, Robert, of Fordington, Dorset, hush., &
Thorn asine Burd, of the same, sp. ; B'dmen, John Burd, of
the same, husb., and Rich. Shanke, of Dorchcstei", yeo. ;
6 Aug.
Watts, Nicholas, of Donhead St. Andrew, Wilts, clerk, &
Dorothy Ringe, of Sherborne, Dorset, sp. ; B'dmen, William
Ringc, of Shaston, Dorset, goldsmith, and John Greene, of
Sarum, goldsmith ; 7 Aug.
Willct, John, of Mere, Wilts, miller, & Margaret Hewit,
of the same, sp. ; B'dmen, Samuel Willson, of Barwick
St. James, miller, and Robert Whale, of Sarum, roper ;
23 Aug.
Malhewc, Edmund, of Calnc, yeo., & Jonc Wimbletts, ol
the same, sp. ; B'dman, Hugh Mathewes, of the same, yeo. ;
27 Aug.
Cox, Hugh, of Lyme Regis, Dorset, yeo., & Jane Bryholt,
sp. ; B'dman, John Facv, gent., of the same ; 1 1 Sept.
Byshopp, James, of Hornisham, Wilts, carpenter, & Mary
Foster, of the same ; B'dman, Roger Trollopp, of the same,
weaver ; 5 Sept.
Dudman, John, of Chiute, Wilts, husb., & Eliz. Sutton,
of the same, wid. ; B'dmen, Stephen Annetts, of the same,
Peculiars of the Dean and Chapter of Sarum. 125
feltmaker, and Thomas Dudraan, husb., of the same;
28 Nov.
Lester, Edward, of Sherborne, Dorset, sadler, & Martha
Gallimore, of Yetminster, Dorset, sp. ; B'dman, William
London, of the Close, Sarum, clerk; 18 Nov.
Palmer, John, of Great Bedwin, Wilts, yeo., & Elioner
Batt, of Grafton, in Great Bedwin ; B'dman, William
Champion, of Odstock, yeo. ; 29 Jan. 1639/40.
Dickman, John, & Elizabeth Hussey,of Bo>combe, WTilts,
sp. ; B'dman, Henry Dickman, of Netton, in Great Durnford,
John's fa. ; 14 Jan.
Dan, John, of Codford St. Mary, Wilts, & Elizabeth
Hewlett, of Knooke; B'dman, Lewis Hewlett, of the same,
yeo. ; 4 Eeb.
Brycr, John, of Sutton Poyntz, Dorset, husb., & Catherine
Fookes, of the same, sp. ; B'dman, Robert Looks, of the
same ; 1 4 Feb.
Cufte, Ambrose, of Folke, Dorset, yeo., & Edith Sutton,
of the same, sp. ; B'dman, James Sutton, of Gillingham,
Dorset, yeo. ; 10 Feb.
Powell, Thomas, of Ramsbury, barber, & Dorothy
Morley, of Aldborne, Wilts, sp. ; B'dman, John French, of
the same, yeo. ; 1 2 Feb.
Dyer, George, of Heytesbury, Wilts, yeo., ec Edith Slye,
of the same, sp. ; B'dman, George Mervin, of Sarum,
mercer ; 18 Feb.
Edmonds, Thomas, of Chadenwitch, in Mere, Wilts, &
Elizabeth Froste, of the same, wid. ; B'dmen, Thomas
Sangar, of the same, husb., and Thomas Browne, of Sarum,
butcher ; 28 Feb.
Knight, Edmund, miller, of Grafton, in Bedwyn, & Alice
Clarke, of the same ; B'dman, John Marshall, of the same ;
3 Mar.
Perse, Henry, of Hornisham, Wilts, carpenter, & Jone
Trollopp, of the same, sp, ; B'dman, John Trollopp, of the
same, husb. ; 2 Mar.
126
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Topp, John, of Combe Bissett, gent., & Susan Kent, of
Boscombe, Wilts, sp. ; B'dman, Giles Ilutchins, gent., of
Sarum ; 29 Oct.
Yeoman, Henry, of Mornisham, tayler, & Eliz. Thresher,
of the same, sp. ; B'dmen, Roger Kinge, of the same, broad
weaver, and Thomas Kinge, of Fisherton, inholder; 27 Feb.
Stevens, Emanuell, of Mere, Wilts, baker, & Alice Fisher,
of the same; B'dman, Edward Fisher, lynnen weaver;
23 Sept.
Ilett, W. M., of He Abbots, Somt., gent., & Anne Game,
of Haydon, Dorset, sp. ; B'dmen, Thomas Game, of Andovcr,
co. South., gent., and Ferdinnndo Erley, of Sarum, girdler ;
4 Oct.
Moulton, John, of Combe Bisset, Wilts, yco., & Margaret
Barham, of the same, sp. ; B'dman, Robert Miller, of Bower-
chalk ; 6 Oct.
Fox, John, of West Harnhnm, clerk, & Anne, ah. Agnes,
Bowles, of Sarum, wid. ; B'dman, John Peaseland, of Sarum ;
6 Nov.
Hayward, Thomas, of Woodford, Wilts, yeo., & Helen
Goodall, of Allington, wid. ; B'dman, Edwart Rattu of Durn-
ford, yeo. ; 1 9 Oct.
Harris, John, mercer, & Mary Sadbury, sp., both of High-
worth, Wilts; B'dman, Edward Kcene, of Sarum, grocer;
5 Nov.
Gollopp, Thomas, of Netherbury, Dorset, gent., & Eliz.
Thornc, of Candlemarshe, Dorset; B'dmen, Thomas Golloppf
the elder, & Thomas Thorne, gen. Seal : Gules, on a bend
07', a lion passant guardant sable. Crest : a denu'-Iion rant-
pant, harry or and sable, in dexter paw a broken arrow.
[Gollop of Strode, co. Dorset] ; 10 Dec.
Godden, Thomas, broadweavcr, & Joanc Jcamcs, sp., both
of Calnc; B'dman, Thomas Ingles, of Sarum, clothworkcr ;
15 Feb.
West, John, of Ncthcrhavcn, mercer, & Mary Willcs, sp.,
of the same ; B'dman, John Palmer, of Sarum, glover ; 4 Mar.
Peculiars of flic Dean and Chapter of Sarum. 127
Makerill, John, of Hungerford, co. Berks, husb., & Mary
Murrell, of the same, wid. ; B'dman, Stephen Hutchens, of
Sarum.
1640.
Barnes, Thomas, Esq., of Duntish, co. Dorset, 22, & Martha
Arnold ; B'dman, VVm. Poulton (top torn away) ; 1 1 Aug.
In Allegation, Martha's parish is given as Alton Pancras,
Dorset, sp., 19.
Kelleway, Jasper, senr., of Sarum, & Hester Smith, of the
Close, Sarum Cathedral. B'dman, Jasper Kelwaye, junr.,
5 Apr.
Rich, Robert, clerk, of Cherrill, Wilts, & Elizabeth Still,
of Christian Malford; B'dmen, Edmund Hargett, of Cherrill,
clerk, & Thomas Ladde, of Calne, clerk ; Cherril Chapel ;
8 Ap.
Clement, John, of Mere, Wilts, woollen draper, & Jane
Sweete, of Gillingham, Dorset, sp. ; B'dman, George Combes,
of Sarum, bookebyndcr ; 9 Ma}7.
Stallington, Henry, of Clifton, Dorset, gent., & Mary Babb,
of the same, Clifton Church ; B'dman, William Collis, of
Sarum, gent. Seal : an Angel) 23 Ma}-.
Lawes, Anthonic, of Bccrc Regis, Dorset, gent., & Eliza-
beth Loope, of the same; B'dman, Thomas Lawes, of Sarum,
gent. ; 19 May.
Boulter, Hugh, of Sarum, tucker, & Ann Smith, of the
Close, Sarum; B'dman, John King, of Sarum, tayler;
23 May.
Appleford, Stephen, of Ramsbury, yeoman, & Joane Cox,
of the same, wid.; B'dmen, William Appleford, of the same,
6 John Tame, of Marlborough ; Ramsbury Ch. ; iS May.
vSlcdge, John, of West Harnham, clothworkcr, & Ann-
Godfrey, of Sarum, sp. ; B'dman, John Godfrey, of Sarum ;
30 May.
Goddard, Michael, of Stock bridge, co. South., gen., &
Susanna Bcngcr, of Woodford, Wilts, wid. ; Woodford Ch. ;
B'dman, John Woodlcy, of Stockbridge, tayler; 16 June.
128
Wiltshire Notes and (Jiteries.
Checker, Robert, of Remesbury, husb., & Margery Norris ;
B'dman, Edward Jones, of Marlborough, butcher ; 22 June.
Harris, Thomas, husb., & Joane Taylor, wid., both of
Calne, Wilts; B'dmen, John Da-he, of the same, chandler,
& Henry Wallford, of Cheverell Magna, yeo. ; 13 July.
Abington, Roger, of Ovcrcompton, Dorset, gen., & Elioner
Parker, of the same; B'dman, Robert Aden, of Ason? in
Folk, Dorset, husb. Seal ; three alcrions on a bend ; 25 July.
W. Thos. Abington and John Labert.
Goulde, Edward, of Sherborne, Dorset, wine cooper, &
Joane Ingrame, of Thornford, Dorset; B'dman, John March,
of Horne-Bloton, co. Somt., husb; Thornford Ch. ; 14 Aug
Lawrence, John, & Agnes Maton.of Quemerford Parva, in
Calne, Wilts; B'dmen, Thomas Lawrence, of Calne, &
Symon Whittle, of Quemerford; 22 Sept. ; Calne Ch.
Turbcrfeild, John, Esqr., & Joane Strode; B'dmen, Hugh
Strode, of Beaminstcr, Dorset, gent., Thomas Foote, of
Stockton, Wilts, clerk. Seal : in a circle a lion rampant
[Strodf.] ; in a circle a fleur-de-lys [Foote]. Allegation gives
Turberfield, of East Stoke, age 21 ; Joane Strode, 17 ;
father consents; 29 Sept.
Barrett, John, clarke, M.A., & Margaret Ryves ; B'dmen,
Roger Blagden, of Lavington Forum, mercer, & Phillipp
Wheller, of Potterne, yeo. Allegation says Barrett, Curate
of Mere, and M. Ryves, of the same, sp., 2S ; 3 Oct.
Davies, George, of WToodford, Wilts, gent., & Elioner
Poton, of Stratford, Wilts ; B'dman, William Cpllis, of
Sarum, gent. Seals: in an oval, "J.D." [Davis]; in an
oval a heart pierced with two arrows in saltire and royalty
crowned [Collis] ; 13 Oct.
Bush, William, of Calne, Wilts, carpenter, & Elizabeth
Dash, of the same ; B'dman, Andrew Clarke, of the same,
brewer ; 2 Nov.
Gibbes, Robert, of Burbage, Wilis, husb., & Thomasine
Wotton, wid., of the same ; B'dman, Matthias I Iaynes, of the
same, husb. ; 30 Nov.
Peculiars of the Dean and Chapter of Sarum. 129
Dolyn, John, of Domeford Magna, husb., & Mary Haydon,
of Lake in Woodford, sp. ; Woodford Ch. ; B'dmen, Willm.
Waters, of the same, husb., and John Pincke, of Durnford,
miller ; 7 Dec.
Highmore, Nathaniel, of the Close, Sarum, gent., & Eliza-
beth Haydock, of the same ; B'dman, Willm. Maton, of West
Lavington. Seal : a crossbow in pale between four birds on
a plain field] 29 Dec.
1640/1.
Maberley, Robert, & Anne Cooke, wid., both of Ramsbury;
B'dmen, William Mabcrley, Robert's brother, husb., cS:
Stephen Widdowes, miller, botli of Ramsbury; 5 Jan.
Wrixon, Stephen, & Mary Nossiter, both of Netherbury,
Dorset ; B'dman, Richard Hooper (Vicar of Netherbury) ;
22 Dec. Note the following : —
The confession of Walter Baker in my hearing. Being in
London three years agone at Christmas next and desirouse
to see myne uncle, Phillip Daish, my mother's brother, 1
went to the house in St. Giles Parish wher hee lodged and
inquireing for him I was answeared by the dwellers ther that
hee was dead and buried; afterward I went to his sone, my
cosen, who dwelleth in Holborne, who told me that his wife
bought a shrowd for him, and hee paid for his buriall. In
[ ] whereof I have hereunto sett myne hands upon
the 20 day of November 1640, and will God willing justify
with myne oath what I have affirmed of my deceased uncle
Phillip Daish when your worships pleasure shall be to call
me thereunto. Wm. Mortimer, Vicar of Cain.
Edmun'd Nfvill.
40, High Street, Salisbury.
(To be continued.)
K
130 IV ill shire Notes and Queries .
QUAKERISM IN WILTSHIRE.
BURIALS.
(Continued from p. S3.)
B (continued).
1771-11-13. — At Pickwick, Mary Bayly, late of Pickwick,
widow of Thomas Bayly.
1773-3-20. — At Pickwick, John Litchfield Bennet, son of John
and Hester Bennet, weaver.
*i 777-in the Spring. — At Tetherton, Charles Barrett, an old
batchelor, age 70.
1 778-4-1 2. — At Pickwick, Jane Barnes, of Notton.
1778- 8-25.— At Pickwick, Mary Bennett, late of Pickwick,
widow of Thomas Headey Bennett.
1779- 1-12. — At Hullavington, Martha Bullock, died at
Hullavington, dau. of Roger and Mary Bullock,
aged 19.
1779-3-9. — At Devizes, Sarah Barrett, of Devizes, widow of
John, age 82.
1779-3-12. — Martha Bullock, wife of Roger Bullock.
1782-4-19. — At Devizes, Mary Barrett, of Devizes, age 51.
1790-1-17. — At Broomham, Lucy Broughton, of Devizes, dau.
of Christopher and Esther Broughton, age
1 1 months. N.M.
1792-1-1 1.— At I lullington, Elizabeth Bullock, of Hullington,
co. of Wilts, dau. of Jacob Bullock, age 7.
1792-5-23. — At Mclksham, Amy Blll, widow of John Bell,
age 68.
1795-1-28.— At Pickwick, Hester Bennet, of Pickwick, co. ol
Wilts, wife of John Bennet, age 69.
1795-2-4. — At Calne, Ann Beere, of Cain, co. of Wilts, age 68.
Quakerism in Wiltshire.
13'
1795- 12-18. — At Bromham, Francis Broughton, of Devizes,
co. of Wilts, son of Christopher and Hester
Broughton, age 4. N..M.
1796- 1-10. — At Melksham, Mary Barnard, of Melksham,
spinster, aged 75. N.M.
1796- 11-1. — At Stanton, Elizabeth Bishop, of Sutton Benger,
co. of Wilts, wife of Henry Bishop, age 80.
1797- 7-2S. — At Broomham, Ann Breach, of Chittoe, co. of
Wilts, wife of Moses Breach, yeoman, age 43.
N.M.
1799- 8-1 1. — At Bromham, Elizth Broughton. of Devizes,
dau. of Christopher and Hester Broughton,
age 16. N.M.
1 j 99-8-1 4. — At Calne, Elizabeth Beere, of Calne, co. of Wilts,
spinster, age 77.
1800- 1-19. — At Calne, Mary Bond, of Calne, co. of Wilts,
spinster, age 77.
1S00-5-7. — At Hullavington, Adam Bullock, of Hullavington,
co. of Wilts, son of Caleb Bullock, carpenter.
N.M.
1802-6-4. — At Pickwick, John Litchfield Bennett, of Pickwick,
co. of Wilts, yeoman, age 76.
1S05-4-2. — At Melksham, Susanna Baker, of Melksham, co.
of Wilts, spinster, age 67.
1S07-9-29.— At Marlbro, Timothy Brown, of Marlborough, co.
of Wilts, age 44. N.M.
1808- 1-2 1. — At Hullavington, Ann Bullock, of Hullavington,
co. of Wilts, wife of Jacob Bullock, age 55.
N.M.
1809- S-2S. — At Pickwick, Thomas Bennett, of Pickwick, co.
of Wilts, yeoman, age 40.
1813-1 1-7. — At Hullavington, Jacob Bullock, of Hullavington,
baker, age 62.
1S15-11-22. — At Hullavington, Adam Bullock, of Hullaving-
ton, co. of Wilts, maltster, age 69.
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1828- 4-18.— At Hullavington, Thomas Bullock, of Langlcy,
co. of Wilts, age 84.
1829- 2-26. — At Hullavington, John Bishop, of Sutton Bengcr,
co. of Wilts, gardener, age 75.
1 832-4-1 7. — At Hullavington, Caleb Bullock, of Hullavington,
co. of Wilts, labourer, age 76. N.M.
1 832-5- 1 8. —At Calne, Thomas Bullock, of Langlcy, co. of
Wilts, yeoman, age 60.
C.
*I7oi-i-23. — Mary Calk, parents of Calne, dau. of John and
Jone Cale.
1702-5-9. — John Church, of Lea.
1703/4-1-6.— Elizabeth Chap (a/ias Allin), ph. of Cowlham,
widow.
•1704-11-8. — Thomas Calk, parents of Calne, son of John and
Jone Cale.
*i7c>4-i 1-1 1. — John Carter, Junr., of Calne.
* 1 705_I ~7- — Edward Call, parents of Calne, son of John and
Jone Cale.
1706 . — Dorathy Coleman, of Langlcy, widow.
1706- 6-25. — At Cumbcrwcll, Sarah Clarke, of Bradford, dau.
of John and Ann Clarke.
* 1 706-10-25.— Joseph Calloe.
1707- 8-2 i.—At Comerwell, Sarah Clark, dau. of John Clark.
•1708-6-1. — Rachall Clarke, of Devizes, wife of John Clarke
•1710-2-9.- — Mary Cannon, of Warminster, dau. of Thomas
and Mary Cannon.
1713-2-20. — Patience Cook, of Chippenham, wife of Roger
Cook.
1 7 13-9- 1 1. — Milliccnt Castle, of Corsham.
1718-5-1 1.— Grace Chievers, of Slaughterford, wife of Samuel
Chic vers.
* 1 7 1S-7-S. — Elizabeth Cole, of Kington, wife of William Cole.
•1718-7-10. — Roger Cook, of Kington, a publick friend, i.e.% a
preacher.
Quakerism in Wiltshire.
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1718-7-20. — Samuel Chievers, of Slaughterford.
♦1719-4-17. — Jane Cook, of Kington, widow.
*i 720-3-5. — Mary Curch, Junr., of Lea.
1 720- 9-13. — At Bradford, Sarah Chjvers, of Trowbridge.
*i72c-io-i8. — Robt. Card, of Calne.
1721- 2-21. — At Bunhill Fields [London], Mary Cribb, died at
London.
*i 724/5-1-22. — Mary Church, of Lea, widdow.
* 1725-3-1. — [Buried] at Comerwell, Tobias Collett, of
Bradford.
*i 726 . — John Clarke, of Bradford, practitioner in
phisick.
1726- 4-9. — At Dread ford, John Clarke.
1727- 11-16. — At Melksham, John Chivers.
*i 729-1-26. — William Carey, of Cowbridge, son of William
Carey.
1729-4-1 7. —Thomas Crabb, of Marlbro'.
* 1 73 1 -4-2 1 . — Francis Charles, of Whitley, ph. of Melksham.
* 1 732 . — Francis Card, dau. [sic] of Robt. and Sibbila
Card.
1734-8-22. — Mary Chard, of Chippenham.
* 1 7 35 . — -Joseph Card, son of Robt. and Sibbila Card.
*i 736-2-20. — Robt. Card.
1 757-7-2- — At Pickwick, Sarah Chapman, of Biddleston, wife
of Laurence Chapman.
*i 738-2-5. — Ann Cleverlev, of Calston.
1738-2-27. — Mary Carpender, wife of John Carpender.
* 1 739~2~5- — Ann Cleverley, of Carleton.
*i74o-2-25. — Mary Chivers, of Melksham, widow.
1 742-2-1 6. — Jone Ceal, of Calne, widow of John Ceal.
* 1 744-9-5. — Mary Cary, of Calne, wife of Thomas Cary.
* 1745-1 2-9. Cary, of Calne, dau. ol Thomas Cary.
1745/6-1-26. — At Bradford, Ann Clark, of Bradford, widdow,
a minister.
1747-3-17. — At Goatacrc, Saml. Cary, parents of Cowbridge,
son of Wni. and Mary Cary.
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*i 747-3-20. — [Buried] at Shotwood, Mary Churches, of Rod-
borougli, co. of Gloucester.
';:i 747-io — .—[Buried] at Comerwell, Mary Cooper, wife of
Richard Cooper.
1747-12-2S. — At Stanton, Thomas Coleman, of Sutton Benjar.
1 750- 1-27. — At Goatacre, Man- Gary, of Cowbriclge, wife of
William Carv.
1750-9-26. — At Comerwell, Richard Cooper, of Bradford.
1752-6-16. — At Goatacre, John Carv, of Charlton.
1 752- 1 2-22. —At Stanton, Nathaniel Coleman, of Sutton
Benger.
1753- 4-S. — At Pickwick. Lawrence Chapman, of Biddestone.
1 753-4- iS.— At Goatacre, Jane Gary, of Dantesey, widdow.
1755-9-3. — At Melksham, Sarah Crook, of Seend Row, wife
of Thos, Crook.
*i 757-1 2-7. --[Buried] at Shortwood, Daniel Clift, of Horsley,
co. of Gloucester.
* 1760-3- 1. —[Buried] at Shortwood, Mary Creed, ph. of
Laiteton, co. of Gloucester.
1760-4-16. — At Bradford, John Clarke, of Bradford, practi-
tioner in phisick, age 76.
*i 762-i-2S. — Daniel Cromwell, of Pottern.
1766-6-1. — At Sarum, Samuel Croker, of Sarum, brazier.
Norman Penney.
(To be continued.)
THOMAS BENETT.
{Vol. ivt p. 1 So.)
We give below the Will of Thomas Benctt, Canon Resi-
dentiary of Sarum, Prebendary of Oxford, 1 524, and of Chute.
*533 J lor some time locum tenens to Peter Vannes, the Dean,
who was non-resident.
According to the Wills Visitation, 1565,11c was second
Thomas Benett.
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son of John Benett, of Norton Bavent, by Agues Forward,
co. Somerset, and is described as V Doctor of the Civill Lawe*'.
[RC.C. 45 Noodes.J
Will of Thomas Benett.
In the name ol God, Amen. The yere of our Lord God Jhesu
Chryste, 155S. The syxten daye of June. I, Thomas Benett, preyste
Chan'lour of the Cathedral Churche of Sarum. and Canon Resydent in
the same, Thesavvrer and Canon Prebendary of the Cathedral Churche
of St. Paule, in London, being whole of mynde, and of good and per-
fecte memory. Lavvde and piayse be to Allmightie God, gyver of all
goodnes, consydering with my selfe that no thinge is more certayne
then deathe, and nothing more incertayne then the howre and tyme of
the same, do ordayne and make my Testament, etc. in manner, etc., as
followithe :— Firste, my Sowle to Allmighty God Father of heaven, my
creator and maker, and to Jhesu Chryste Hys only Sonne, my Redemer
and Savyor, my bodye to be buryed w'tin the Cathedral Church of
Sarum, yf I departe thys myserable and Transetory Lyf w'tin the
Cloyster there or within ix myles of the same in maner and forme as I
have appoynted and prepared therefore; to my Lorde Busshopp of
Sarum, being present at my obyte and buryall, 6s. ; to every Canon
Resydent being lykewyse present, $s. ; to every Canon now resydent
bcinge lykewyse present, 35. 4<7. ; to every vycare choral lykewyse
present, 2S. ; to tlie subdeane and subchauntor lykewise present every
one of them, 2s. ; to the two Sextons being present, 2S. ; to the Query-
sters, js. ; to the two Garcons lykewyse present, \2d. ; to every Altaryst
present, Gd.; to be distributed to the poore the daye of my buryall or
the nextc daye after in breade, foure poundes. and as myche at my
monythes mynde; my howseholde to be kepte vvholye togyther, as many
as wyll tarrye by the space of one monythe next alter my deceasse and
buryall, and have tlieyre whole ye re's wages with the same quarter that
I do deceasse in, excepte my chaplins and suche as shall have a larger
bequeste and leagacye, etc., hereafter, by this my Testament, etc.,
which I wyll shalbe contentyd only therewith; to my dere belovyd
brother Wyllyam Benett, of Norton Bavent, 10//., and my bason and
yoore of sylver parsell gylte during onlye his ovvne lyfe, and after hys
decesse to remayue to my cosyu Wyllyam Benett, ol Westbury, hys
sonne; to the sayde Wyllyam Benett, my brother, all the stuffe and
beddinge of the greate Chamber over the greate parlour within the
counterborde there ; to my sayd cosy n Wyllyam Benett, of Westbury,
\olii and all the resydevve of plate duryng onlye his ovvne lyf, and after
hys deceasse unto Thomas Benett his sonne, and my godsone being
liowe with me at Sarum at schole. And allso to the sayd Wyllyam
Benett, of Westbury, all the stuffe and beddinge within my chamber
called the Chapped chamber. And to my cosyu Margaret, hys wyfe,
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my scarlett govvne and one ringe of gonlde, with a dethes hedd, pryce
16s. Sd. ; to my cosyn Robert Elyot I do forgyve and remytt all sucli
debte as he owyth me. whiche amountythe vnto 15//. or there abowtu.
I gyve and bequeth vnto my cosyn Christofer Benett all suche stuffc
and beddinge as ys and was wonte to be in the chamber that he was
accustomed to lye in when he was with me in my Howse, and two
sylver sponnes at the discretion of myne executors, and in money
3//. 6s. Sd. ; to my cosyn Sir John Fowler all suche stuffe and beddinge
as belongythe to my Gatehouse chamber; vnto my foresaydc cosyn,
Wyllyam Benett, of Westbury, hys executors, admynystrators, and
assignes, the advousons of my prebend of Chesingbury and Chute in
the Cathedral Churche of Sarum, and of the personadge and parryshe
churche of Owre Moyne, in the county of Doreet, to the: entent and
purpose to present and gyve the same to my cosyn Sir John Fowler,
now student in the Unyversyte ot Oxforthe, or ells to Sir Luke Hiccoxe,
Syr John Mydlecote, Sir Thomas Tryncoll, or ells to some honeste and
able pryeste, as he will anndswere before God and in dyschardge [of]
hys concyens and myne at the dreadful! daye of Judgment ; to my
syster, Alice Edwardes, 40,?., and to every of my other systers one ryall
ofgolde; to my cosyn Thomas Creswell I do forgyve and remytt 10//.
which I lent Irym fowre or fyve yeres paste; to my cosyn Fraunces
Edwardes I do forgyve, etc , all such sommes of money as he ys in-
debted vnto me which amountythe one my conseyens above one
hundreth marches ; unto every one of my servauntes being with me in
wages at the tyme of my deathe a blacke coote ; unto Wyllyam Hellyar
my servaunt 4 marcks, yf he be with me in servyce at the tyme of my
deathe ; unto the querysters of the Cathedral Churche of Sarum one
good mylch cowe to remayne in stocke contynually, and 1 hartely
desyre the maysters resydent, for the time beinge, to gyve the lease in
the churche yarde lor the sayd cow; unto Richard Holte, and to Sir
Luke Hiccoxe, my vicary chorall, every of them, being present at my
buryall and masse, one biacke govvne and 40^. in money; unto the sayd
Richard Holte one ambling nagge or gelding at the dyscretion of myne
executors. Residiary to my moste dere and welbeloved brother
Wyllyam Benett, of Norton Bavent, and unto hys sonne Wyllyam
Benett, of Westbury, being my executors, etc., overseers my very
fryndes Mr. Rychard Holte and Sir Luke Hiccoxe my vicare chorall.
In witnes whereol 1 have subscribed my name with myne owne hand,
and sett my seale the daye and yere above wrytten. Thes being
desyred to bean* wytnes to the same. John Webbe, Wyllyam Benett,
John Gayter, Gylberte Webbe, and Alyce Symthe, with others. Per
me Thomas Benett, .Ma n propria. Wyllyam Benett, by me John Webbe.
[Proved 11 September 155S.]
"A Scandalous Misdemeanour" at Birtford.
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"A SCANDALOUS MISDEMEANOUR" AT BIRTFORD.
Exchequer K.R. Ecclesiastical Documents. Bundle 9, no. 19
\tcmp. James I]. Endorsed: "Articles for the Dcanc
of Salisbury."
Articles contevninge the relacion of the scanda-
lous misdemeanour in the Church of Birtford hard by
Salisbury, beinge in the Episcopall Jurisdiction of
the Deane and Chapter there vppon the daie of the
Kinges Matis inaugaration \vch was the .\xiiij:h daie of
March last past by Sr George Wrotesley, knight, his
servantcs and complishes, tennant to the said Deane
and Chapter of the Rectory of Birtford.
The late viccarof Birtford, deceased on Sundaic, the xxiilh
of March last past, and the Mundaie following. Sr George
Wrotesley, tennant to the Deane and Chapter of Salisbury, of
the Rectory of the said Birtford, did offer them ten poundes to
stay the collacion of the .-aid Viccaridge vntill the time he
might retorne backe from a journey, vv'ch behoofed him
instantlie to perforate bycause he pretended that in the Lease
of the Rector}-, w'ch he hath bought from the assignes of Mr.
Blacker, Gierke of the Chapter of Sarum, that the Advowson
of the said viccaridge doth apperteigne to him althoughe there
is no mencion of it in the same Lease. And the Mondaic in
the aftcrnoonc he sent a procurator of the Spiritual Court to
the said Deane and Chapter to enter a Caveat, to im patch anic
Gierke, to be collated to the said Viccaridge, alleadging his
said pretencion.
But the said Sr George, heareinge that Doctor Gordcn was
alreadie collated to the Viccaridge, the xxiijth c>f the said
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monnetli of March, he did absent himself from his house, at
Birtford, Leaving direction w'th his vvif and men to possessc
themselvees of the Church and keyees thereof.
And the xxiiijth daie of March followinge, beinge the daie
of the kinges ma'tis inauguration, the Deane of Salisbury and
two of his brethren went to the Church of Birtford, of the
which they arc ordinaryes, having of it the Episcopal 1 Juris-
dicion to celebrate devine service and to preach for the
solempnizacion of the Kinges Ma'tis Daie, and commingc
thither they founde the Church dores shult against them and
the possession of the Church kept by John Bowyer and John
Man, servauntes to Sir George Wrotesley, knight, and William
Estman, Clerke of theparishe; the said Doctor Gorden and
his assistantecs requireing them to open the doore that thaie
might come in to celebrate divine service and to preach and to
solempnize the Kinges Ma'tis daie, weare denied by them,
alleadging that they weare there to kepe possession for thcire
Mr. Sr George Wrotesley, and there vppon the Gierke in
particuler beinge commanded to open the doore answered lie
could not because the Ladie Wrotesley had the key.
Wherevppon the said Doctor by order and those of the
Chapter present w'th him sent a grave minister w'th two others
to require her to send the key, that all duties might be per-
formed both to God and the king the same time, but she
refused to send the key, saieinge that she would not doe it
bycause shee would not preiudice her husbandes right, where
vppon maine of the parish at the same time being assembled
to hearc divine service and sermon were faine to depart w'th-
out hearinge the same.
Alsoe vppon the xxvth of March, beinge the feast of the
Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Marie, the said Doctor
Gordon, beinge assisted by three justices of peace, to witt Sr.
Jesper Moore, knight, Doctor Tookcr, Deane of Leechfeild,
and Mr. Blacker, dwellinge in the Clo^c of Sarum, whoe went
w'th him that noe violence might be offered; vppon there
comming thither the doores were opened, and he, being put
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in peaceable possession, did at the same time celebrate divine
service, and w'th all gave notice of a Communion to be cele-
brated the Sundaie followinge, called Palme Sondaie.
At w'cb time, that is to say on tbe Sundaie followinge
called Palme Sundaie, the said Doctor Gordon comingc thither
to celebrate divine service, to preach and to minister tbe com-
munion to a great number of communicantes then assembled,
w'th the rest of the parishe, all things being provided for the
said communion, the church dores were againe kept sbutt by
John Bowycr and John Man, who said they were Sr. George
Wroteslcy his servantes, and that [the}'] were comaunded by
theire saide Mr. to keepc the possession of the church, where-
upon the Churchwardens were constreyned to sell the bread
and wine in tbe church portch, and tbe said Doctor Gordon
was faine to say service and to preach in tbe said portch, the
people standing in tbe churchyard, w'thout celebrateinge the
communion to the great offence and scandall of people.
Wherevppon the Lord Bushipp and other commissioners
for clauses ecclesiasticall understanding of this great disorder
sent a warrant for the said John Bowycr and John Man by
the messenger of the said commission, vvhoe findinge the said
John Man in the churchyard, and bcinge readie to execute his
warrant, not onelie gave tbe messenger threatninge vvordes,
but alsoe in the said church yard drewc his dagger tellinge
him that if he came nearc him be would stabb him.
Alsoe the widdowe of the late incumbent beinge dc^icrous
to have her husband buried in the church, and having pro-
vided one for to preach at his buriall, both shec and the
preacher were disappointed fowre several! times. And she
beinge demaunded the cause whie she suffred her husband to
be soe longe unburied, answered in the presence of the parishe
that she was hindred by the Lad}- Wroteslcy and her men
that would not suffer her to doe it, soe that the corpse re-
mained unburied xii daics after the daic of his death.
Mo
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
ERLESTOKE.
Sciant p'scntes & futuri q'd ego Thomas de Cory',1 Rector
eccl'ie de Chyverel p'va dedi conccssi & hac p'senti carta mea
confirmavi Rob'to le Somen'2 de Erlestoke & Edithe ux'i eius
totu' illud mesuagiu' cu' ilia dimid1 v'gat t're arrabil' & cu'
aliis p'tin' suis in Erlestoke p'dc'a ac etia' cu' una acra t're
arrabil' jacent in campo eiusd'm ville in Shortefurjang quod
quid'm mcsuag' cu' dimid' virg' t're p'dc'a c\: aliis p'tin' suis ac
ecia' cu' p'dc'a acra t're arr' nup' h'ui de dono lN: feoflamento
p'dc'i Rob'ti. H'end' & tenend' totu' p'dc'm mcsuag' cu' dimid'
v'gat' t're p'dc'a & aliis p'tin' suis quibuscu'qz ac ecia' cu'
p'dc'a acra t're p'dc'is Rob'to & Edithe & heredibz de corp'ibz
eor'd'm Rob'ti & Edithe Tie p'creatis de capitalibz d'nis feodi
illi' p' s'vicia inde debita & consueta inp'p'm. Et si contingat
q'd qd'm Robt' & Editha obierint sine herede de corp'ibz
eor'd'm Rob'ti & Edithe legitime p'creato q'd extu'c p'dc'm
mesuag' cu' dimid' v'g' t're p'dc'a & aliis o'i'o'dis p'tin' suis ac
ecia' cu' p'dc'a acra t're integre remaneant rectis heredibz
p'dc'i Rob'ti. Tenend' de capitalibz d'nis feodi illi' liberc
integre bene & pacifice iure hereditar' inp'p'm absqz aliquo
retenemento inde seu reclamac'one mei vel heredu' meor'. In
cui' rei testi'oniu' sigillu' meu' p'senti carte apposui. Hiis
testibz Nicho. Chaumberlayn, Joh'ne ffr'nkelayn, Rob'to dc la
NEibaumbre,3 Ric'o lc Eyr, Ric'o la Haub'vylle' cm aliis. Dat
a; Era Erlestoke p'dc'am die Jovis p'xima post' fm Sci Marci
Ev'ngeliste anno regni regis Edwardi L'cij a conqucstu
vicesimo t'cio. [1348-9]. (Seal lost).
[Endorsed:] "Erlestoke, A0 23 E. 3," and, in a later
hand, " Cory to Somner."
1 Thomas de Cotterydie. The name occurs as a juror on an Inq. P. M. in
1361, relating, among other things, to land in Erlestoke.
a Hoi), de Someuonr 111 Lay Subsidy Koll of 1332-3, was one of the largest
holders of land in Erlestoke.
3 De la [or atte] Chaumbie, and Haubcrvylle, are oacaes which occur hi re
from an early date.
Queries. 1 4 1
James Eyre. — lie was Rector of Winterbourne Stoke
and Nettleton, 1S01-12, the patron in each case being Lord
Chedworth ; headmaster of Solihull Grammar School, co.
Warwick, for 30 years, where he died in 1813. He was the
son of John Eyre, gent., Coventry. Can any of your readers
help me to place him in either the Wiltshire or Derbyshire
branches of the Eyre family ?
John Eyre Sparrow.
John Eaton, with his wife Anne, and Children — John,
Anne, Elizabeth, Ruth, Thomas, Esther, was in Colchester,
Mass., now Salisbury, as early as June 26th, 1640. Other
families who settled therewith him were: Batt, Biley, Dow,
Dummer, Kimball, Rolfe, Sanders, and Singlctcry. It has
long seemed to me probable that John Eaton came from
Wilts; can anyone throw light on his ancestry, or give the
parish where he was born ?
A. W. II . Eaton (Rev. Dr.).
Beacon Chambers,
Boston, Mass.
Edward Gibbon and Devizes. — In his autobiography the
author of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, states
that whilst out with the Militia, in 1760, he "was quartered
in the populous and disorderly town of Devizes, where we
met with scant hospitality from the neighbouring gentry".
Are there any reminiscences of his sojourn in Devizes ? Why
was the capital of our county described as " disorderly " at
this period, and why was the Militia called out for two years ?
Sagax.
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Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Browne of North Wilts. — On page 59 of Kite's Brasses
of Wilts, I find it stated that John Browne of Calne, to whom
a licence to eat flesh in Lent was granted in 1615, was a
grandson of Robert Weare, ah. Browne, who was seven
times Mayor of Marlborough. I should be glad to know
what authority there is for this relationship? May I also
ask whether anything is known of the parentage, place of
birth, or any other antecedents, of Richard Browne, wThose
will is set out in W. N. & O., vol. v, p. 537.
John Dyke.
Chitterne Registers.— The following occurs in our
Registers : —
Stephen Swain, of the Parish of Sutton Veney, in the County of
Wilts, and Tamor Martin, alias Hinderson, of the Parish of Chittern
St. Mary, in ye same County, were Married in this Church by Licence
this ninth Day of February, in the year One Thousand Seven Hundred
and Seventy Four, by me, John Edwards (Curate).
This marriage was solemnized between us in the Presence of
William AUford, John Giant.
The mark x of Stephen Swain. The mark x of Tamor Martin,
alias Hinderson.
A note at the side, in lead pencil, states : " Both hung",
and the writing looks like that of the next curate, whose
formal entries commence in 17S3. When, why, and where
did this take place ?
These further extracts, may be of interest : —
1655, Dec. 4.— Margaret, the wife of Dositheus VVyer, Minister ol
ye Gospel at Chitterne, deceased, the first day of Decemb., and buried
on ye 4th of the same.
The Agreement of Marriage between Dositheus Wyer. minister
of Chitterne, and Miss Siscella Wannerton, of Cloford, in ye County ol
Sumerset, was published three severall Lord's Days in ye close oi ye
morning exercise, viz., Januarii ye iSth and 25th days, and the first day
of Feb., according to ye tenor of a late act made 1656, March 25. The
above Dositheus Wyer, minister of the Word, and Miss Siscella
Wannerton were married on the 24th of March, 1656.
143
Wyer was evidently placed here under the Cromwellian
regime, as his name does not appear in an}' list of Vicars I
have seen. This godly man buried his wife on Dec. 4th, and
had the banns published for another in six weeks' time. The
proper clergy at this time were in many cases turned out by
Cromwell as being "unworthy and scandalous", but if this is
a sample of the men introduced, there could not have been
much improvement, I fear. Is there anything more known
of this man and his wives?
. . John T. Canner.
Paul Bush (vol. iv, p. 99).— Last year, .Mr. Poynder,
bookseller, of Reading, sold the following, priced 21s., to Mr.
W. Carew Hazlitt, of Barnes Common
'* Bushe [Paule, late Bishop of BtysfoweJ] A Brefe ex-
hortation to one Margarete Burges [wyfe to John Bttrges,
clotheare, of Kyngeswode, in the Conntie of Willshere\ Black
letter. Title printed within curious woodcut border. \Snio.
hnprintcd at London, in Pozvle's Churchyard^ at the Sygne oj the
Holv Ghost, by John Cawodde, 1555." Ed.
Longevity in "Wiltshire Parish Registers" (vol. ii,
p. 346). — Tilshead Register contains, in the handwriting of
Anthony Delacourt, Vicar :—
16S9. — Thomas Ashly (bccing as 'twas t«»'.d nice) two months more
than one hundred years old and one, was buryed or. Ashwednesday,
being the tilth day of .March, 16S9.
R. G. Baktelot.
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Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
flotcs on 33oofc$.
The Annals of Devizes, a.d. i 102-1900.
Under the above title Mr. Russell Gillman has issued a
most useful and interesting little work, at the low price of
sixpence. In his preface we learn "the Annals down to 1865
were compiled by Mr. James Waylen, the well-known
historian of Devizes and Marlborough, and from that date
until 1893 the work was continued by my late father, and
since that time it has been done on similar lines by myself."
They have mostly been reprinted from the columns of the
Devizes Advertiser.
The Editor has happily induced Mr. Kite (perhaps the
best living authority on the history of his native town) to
write an Introduction, which is a clever condensation of Soo
years. May we be allowed to enter a mild protest at the
"abdication of James II in 1688", a Whig (legal?) fiction;
James II and his heirs never abdicated ; they continuously
and boldly asserted their rights, using regal titles and
exercising regal rights until the death of the "Cardinal King",
Henry IX, in 1807.
Mr. \V. A. Bones contributes an article on the town from
the Universal British Directory, 1791, and the Editor has
added a list of Mayors from 1302- 1906. Under the date ol
1761 is mentioned Gibbon's presence in Devizes.
f
4
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i|R THOMAS I'll 11 LIPPS
from tin ttitargof pltoiograplt.
©Btiteijtvf J^otcG antJ £liimcs,
DECEMBER, 190S.
WILTSHIRE TOPOGRAPHY [1659-1843],
With some Notes on the late Sir Thomas Phillipps,
and his Historical Collections for the County.
S early as 1659, at the close of the Civil War,
Aubrey, with several other Wilts gentry of the
-.- , . — - time,1 had contemplated a survey of the entire
^>c^vi county and its antiquities, on the plan of the then
recently published Illustration oj Warwickshire , by
Sir William Dugdale ; but his literary friends failing to fulfil
in due course their promises of co-operaticn. Aubrey was left
to pursue his researches alone, and his manuscript collections,
preserved in the Ashmolcan Museum at Oxford, remained
for a future generation to publish.
As the earliest independent collector of topographical
material,-1 and an unwearied toiler in the then unexplored
field of Wiltshire antiquity, the name of John Aubrey
will ever deserve a kindly mention in tins, his native
1 Jeffrey Daniel, of St. Margaret's, Marlborough. Sir John Erneley, "f
Whetham, Thomas Gore, of Alderton, Judge Robert Nicholas, of Koundway,
and William Yorke, of Basset's Down.
2 The topographical notes on Wilt -hire, previously taken by Leland,
on the authority of a Royal Commission from Henry VJ1I (from which
Camden is said to have borrowed;, were known only hi Aubrey's time by a
rare first edition of his Itinerary, l>4 leaves, 12mo size, printed in black
letter, by John Bale, 1519.
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146 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
county. Writing, in 1696,1 when at the age of 70, to his patron,
the first Earl of Abingdon, in whose mansion, at West
Lavington, he had found shelter and hospitality in days of
adversity, he says : —
"It was my intention to have finished my Description of Wiltshire
(half finished already) and to have dedicated it to your lordship, but my
age is now too far spent for such undertakings. I have, therefore, devolved
that task on my countryman, Mr. Thomas Tanner, who hath youth to go
through with it, and genius proper for such an undertaking."'
Aubrey's youthful friend, then about 22, and afterwards
the learned author of Noiitia Monastica, was a native of
Market Lavington, his father being vicar there for nearly half
a centuiy. He became successively Canon of Christ Church,
Oxford, Chancellor of Norwich, and Bishop of St. Asaph. In
1715 he issued A Scheme of the intended History of Wiltshire,
appealing to the nobility, clergy, and gentry of the county "to
encourage such a public design", but it apparently met with
very little response.
Other similar appeals, of a later date, were alike unsuc-
cessful. In 1788 Mr. Henry Penruddocke Windham, of the
College, Salisbury, published, in a thick octavo volume, the
Wiltshire portion of the Domesday Survey, together with an
English translation, suggesting in the preface ua plan for the
general history of the Comity", and liberally offering, at the same
time, to contribute the sum of a hundred pounds either in
support of his own, or any other plan that may be considered
more desirable ; but the challenge was not accepted, and the
matter still continued to slumber.
Lastly, in 1799, tne ^cv- Dr. Davison, of Froxfield, once
more made a similar appeal, but also in vain. That the design
of a County History, thus initiated by Aubrey, should have
been allowed to lie dormant for the next century and a hall,
notwithstanding these frequent attempts to renew an interest
in the subject, must be attributed wholly to a want of neces-
1 In the dedication of his Miscellanies, which were first printed in this
year.
'47
sary support is full}' evident, there being at the time no lack
of literary talent at disposal ; for, besides Bishop Tanner,
now engaged in compiling for the press his great work the
Noiitia Monastica, Wiltshire had, in the interim, given his-
torians to two other counties— Collinson to that of Somerset,1
and Hasted to Kent" — the published volumes of each being-
still recognized as standard works of reference on matters of
county history.
But at the beginning of the last century a fresh impetus
was given to Wiltshire Topography, first by the publication,
in 1 80 1, of two volumes of the Beauties of Wiltshire? and a
third in 1825, b}- the late John Britton, F.S.A., who was also
the author of the Wiltshire volume of the Beauties of England
and IVales, and the History of Salisbury Cathedral ; both
issued in 1814. The Architectural Antiquities, and other later
works of Mr. Britton, also contain much valuable Wiltshire
material.
It was at this time also that Sir Richard Colt Hoare, the
resident owner of Stourhead, with a strong love of topo-
graphical research, and abundant means at his disposal,
became the historian of this, his adopted county ; first of its
pre-historic remains, in the two sumptuously printed and
illustrated folio volumes of Ancient Wiltshire [1812-21], in-
1 History and Antiquities of the Count;/ of Somerset, by Rev. John
Collinson, 3 vols., -Ito, Crutwell, Hath, 1791. An earlier volume. The
Beauties of British Antiquity^ publi>hcd in 1 7 7U. i.< dated from the author's
birthplace at Bromham.
2 Historical and Topographical Survey of Kent, by Edward Hasted,
4 vols., folio, 177S-9. A later edition was publirhed in 12 volumes, octavo.
3 It was, as Mr. Britton often remarked, owing to his courteous reception
at Bowood, by the grandfather of the present Marquess of Lansdowne, when
collecting material for this his first literary project, that he was encouraged
to persevere with his self-imposed task, and bring it to a successful issue.
Had he, on the other hand, in tins early endeavour to illustrate tin; history
of his native county, met with a rebuff instead of encouragement, these
volumes of Wiltshire history, and his many other literary works, including
the Architectural and Cathedral Antiquities of (irent Britain, would in all
probability have never issued from the press.
L 2
14S Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
eluding the British and Roman periods; and lastly in the
Modern History of South Wilts* divided into Hundreds, and
with the History 0/ Salisbury (published after Sir Richard's
death), completing six other folio volumes [1822-43], which
as a whole constitute one of the most elaborate works of its
kind f but too costly, in fact, to be within reach of the ordinary
lover of topographical literature, and a re-print in a much
cheaper and more readable form, with additions and cor-
rections to date, is much to be desired. In the Northern
Division of the count}-, which also needs some kind of regular
and uniform history, there are still many parishes wholly
unexplored, and much virgin soil yet remains for some careful
topographer who, as Aubrey said of Mr. Thomas (afterwards
Bishop) Tanner, at the age of 22, "hath youth to go through
with it, and genius proper for such an undertaking".
With the name of Sir Richard Hoarc, as the historian of
Wiltshire, is, or ought, also to be associated that of his con-
temporary and coadjutor, Sir Thomas Phillipps, who, for
many years, was an enthusiastic collector, and the editor— in
a way somewhat peculiar to himself— of much topographical
and genealogical material relating to this, as well as to other
counties.
Sir Thomas Phillipps, the only son of a wealthy manu-
1 In 1818 Sir Richard issued a pamphlet entitled Hints on the
Topography of Wiltshire, address 1 ro "my countrymen," in which ho says,
"Wiltshire, among the very few counties within our island, still remains
unexplored and undesoribed . . . and in works of early antiquity, and
elegant architecture, what other county can vye with it ! "
2 In accordance with Aubrejs original idea, these volumes were
completed on the principle of a division of labour. Sir Richard H"Mr<--
coadjutors being James Everard, Lord Arm. dell of Wardour, William
Henry Black. Charles Howies of Shaftesbury, Richard Harris of Westbury,
George Matcbam, LL.D., of Xewhouse. Downton, John Gough Nichols,
F.S.A., Rev. John Offer of Imber, S:r Thomas Phillipps, F.S.A., and Henry
Wanseyof Warminster; not omitting Robert Benson, Recorder of Salisl
and Henry Hatcher, by the latter of whom the History of Salisbury ^ t 1 ■ * *
most copious and exhaustive volume ever written on the history of a single
city or town) was completed and prepared for the pre^s.
Wiltshire Topography [1659-1843].
149
facturcr, of Middle Hill, near Broadway, eo. Worcester, was
born at Manchester in Jul}* 1792. He claimed a Welsh des-
cent from Phillips of Cilsant, and a Wiltshire one from the old
* families of Webbe, of Salisbury, and Foster, of Mere, as shown
in the accompanying pedigree ; which will, perhaps, account
for his earl}- interest in the City of Salisbury and its Cathe-
dral records.1 He married in 1.819, and is believed to have
resided for a while at Basset's Down, near Swindon, removing
after his father's death to Middle Hill. Here he maintained
a large establishment, but at the death of his wife, in 1832, he
had broken it up, and devoted himself wholly to antiquarian
research. Here, with a press of his own, and a printer and
bookbinder, both regularly employed on the premises, he pro-
duced much of his privately printed material, his three daugh-
ters being often engaged for the whole day in preparing copy for
the compositors. As a collector of books, and more especially
of manuscripts, his enthusiasm knew no bounds. He was a
client of nearly every English bookseller, and purchased
library after library, collection after collection. When on one
occasion, a bookseller (Mr. Thorpe) sent him a newly issued
catalogue of about 1,400 volumes of manuscripts, Sir Thomas
was not content with a selection, but at once ordered the
whole. His other large purchases included the entire scries
of Battle Abbey Charters, and the celebrated Meerman library
of Greek manuscripts. He also purchased largely at the
Heber and other sales during the first half of the last century.
A writer in the Quarterly Review of May 1843 questioned if
"all Europe could produce another individual gentleman who,
in his ardour for collecting books and manuscripts, had dis-
1 He has himself told the writer that when he first became acquainted
with Salisbury (about 1820), lie sometimes paid £2 or £'.) a day in fees for
searching wills, etc., at the Diocesan Registry. The windows of the
Cathedral Library were at that time broken, and the jackdaws, with free
ingress and egress, nightly found both "perch" and "dormitory" en the
piles of choice volumes, including an Anglo-Saxon M.S., which were heaped
up in a state of "chaos" on the tables within.
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Pedigree showing the descent oe Sir Thomas Phillipps from
Webbe, oe Salisbury, and Painsplace, Co. Dorset.
Arms of Phillipps. — Sable, a lion rampant argent within an orlc of
fleurs-de-lis or.
Crest. — A demi-lion rampant argent, holding in tiie paws a fleur-de-
lis or.
William Webbe, preat-grand-==Catb.erine, dau. and heiress
son of William Webbe, alias j of" George Tourney, of
Kellowe, Mayor of Salisbury, I Motcombe, co. Dorset.
1496. and himself Mayor 1553 I
and 1562 ; M.P. 1559.
I I
Sir William Webbe. John Bampfield=Meliora \Vebb<.
A I
Henry Poster, of Mere^Catherinc Bampfield.
Thomas Foster —Alice, co-heir of Anthony Mansel.
I
1
Edward Cotterell-Y-Alice Foster.
I
I
William Phillipps, of Broadway, ==--Mary Cotterell.
co. Worcester.
Thomas Phillipps, a "wealthy Edward Phillipps, of
manufacturer", of Middle Broadway.
Hill, near Broadway. |
Edward. John. Willian
(1) Harriet, dau. of Major-ffSir Thomas Phillipps. F.S.A.O) Elizabeth Harriet
General Molyneux, m. (only son), born 1792, created Anna, eldest dau. 01
1S19 ; d. 25 Mar. iS;2. a Baronet 27 July 1827 ; d in Rev. W. J. Mansel,
February 187?. ' eldest sou of Sir U m.
M., Bt., of Iscoed, in.
1842.
I I I
1. Henrietta Elizabeth 2. Maria Sophia Bam- {.Catherine Somerset
Molyneux fylde Foster. Wyttenbach.
James Orchard Halliwell. John, eldest son of Rev. Rev. John Edward Ad-
afterwards Halliwell- ' C. Walcot, of Billerley di=,on Kenwick.
Phillipps. Court, Salop. k
Wiltshire Topography [ 1 659-1 843]. 151
bursed, like Sir Thomas Phillipps, jQ\ 00,000" — and he con-
tinued purchasing on all hands for nearly thirty years after
that date.
The library kept continually increasing until the mansion
of Middle Hill was filled from basement to attics. The books
were in boxes, which were piled one on the other, the lids
being on one side, and hinged at the lower end, so as to open
outwards and downwards independently of each other. They
were kept locked, and no one outside his own circle of
personal friends was willingly allowed to see his library.
After the death of Lord Xorthwick, and the sale of his
splendid gallery of pictures at Thirlestaine House, Cheltenham,
in Jul}' 1859, the residence was taken by Sir Thomas Phillipps,
and he at once began to remove his library thither — an opera-
tion which extended over some two years — the books and
manuscripts being conveyed in an omnibus, which, in charge
of two men, plied twice a week, and Thirlestaine, an enormous
building, surrounded on all sides by high walls, and in every
way suited to the purpose, was filled, as Middle Hill had
previously been, with the mass of literary material which
kept continually accumulating until the death of its owner,
which took place in February 1S72, in his Soth year.
Sir Thomas, who had taken the degree of M.A., was
elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London
as early as 1819. He was also F.R.S., F.G.S., M.R.G.S.,
Hon. M.R.S.L., and a Governor of the British Museum,
which it was confidently hoped would have benefited
largely under his will, but such was not the case. One
of his strictest testamentary injunctions was that neither
his eldest daughter, nor her husband, Mr. James Orchard
Halliwell, afterwards Halliwell-Phillipps, die eminent Shakcs-
perean scholar,1 nor any Roman Catholic, should enter his
1 The late Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps wa«\ we believe, one of Sir Thomas'
librarians, who may be described as ••lesrion". One of them, John Rowlands
("Giraldus"). writing in Yr Haul (a Welsh periodical), of October Is?:;,
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
house, and the whole of his great library was bequeathed
to his youngest daughter, wife of the Rev. John Edward
Addison Fenwtck, for life, with remainders to her children ;
and the dispersal of his enormous accumulations under the
hammer of Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson, and Hodge, has
been going on, at irregular intervals, since 1SS6; the
thirteenth of which sales took place at their rooms,
Wellington Street, Strand, on 15 June 1908, and three
following days, up to which date, as summarised in the
Times of April 6, 1903, the twelve previous sales had
realised a total of ^4 1,274 155. 6c/., in addition to various
private purchases from the Phillipps executors ; much more
of the collection yet remaining for disposal.
We may, at this point, enumerate, as far as possible,
the various printed books and separate sheets relating to
Wiltshire, which have from time to time issued from Sir
Thomas Phillipps' private press1 — as well as some of the
more important of his manuscript collections illustrative of
the history of the County.
As already mentioned, he was elected F.S.A. in April
18 19, not having then reached his 27th year. He had at
this time already commenced printing Wiltshire material,
viz. : —
Collections for Wiltshire^ by Tho. Phillipps, Esq.,
jun. Svo, 1S18.
This was followed by a Salisbury printed volume, of
which he was the Editor :—
The Herald's Visitation of Middlesex, began in t he-
year 1663, by W. Ryley, Lancaster Herald, and H.
Dcthick, Rouge Croix, Marshals and Deputies to Sir
describes himself as the "hundred and twentieth" in succession. His
recollections of Sir Thomas and Thirlestainc House, as there given, were
communicated to Xofc.s and Queries, 17 June IH05, by Mr. J. P. Owen.
1 A complete set. of the books printed at Middle Hill was included in
the sale of the first instalment of the Phillipps library at Messrs. Sotheby's
in August 1S8»;.
Wiltshire Topography [1659-1843].
«53
E. Bysshe, knt. Folio size. Salisbury, 1S20. (150
copies printed.)
The Topographer, originally edited by Rev. S. Shaw,
etc., now continued by Thomas Phillipps, Vol. V, Part I
(all published). Svo, Salisbury, 1S21.
[This contains the Herald's Visitation of Oxfordshire, 1574.]
Monumental Inscriptions in Wiltshire, foolscap folio.
Middle PI ill, 1821/2.
[Of this volume six copies only were printed, and it lias
consequently almost the rarity of a manuscript. The inscrip-
tions from the Churches ot North Wilts occupy 286, and from
South Wilts 108 pages. The latter have since been reprinted
in Hoare's Modern Wilts. It is uselul for reference as regards
the epitaphs in North Wilts Churches, many of which, here
printed, have since either become illegible, or vanished wholly
during the process of so-called "Church Restoration".
One copy of this extremely rare volume is in the library of
the College of Arms, and a second, from the Stourhead library,
is now in that of the Wilts Archaeological Society at Devizes,
and another is to be found in the British .Museum.]
Aubreys Collections for North Wilts, \\o, Part 1, pp. iv
and 336 ; and An Essay towards the description of the
Northern part of Wiltshire, by me John Aubrey, of Easton
Pierce, 4to, Part II, pp. iv, 124. Printed at the Private
Press of Sir Thos. Phillipps. 1821-1 S3S.
[Printed for the first time from Aubrey's original manuscript
in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. The blazon of the arms,
which Aubrey drew in trick, is here described in the text, but
at a much later date Aubrey's drawings were copied by the
second Lady Phillipps, and a few impressions reproduced by
the anastatic process.
A new edition of Aubrey's Wiltshire Collections, with
copious notes by the late Canon Jackson, and facsimiles of
Aubrey's sketches of arms, etc., by the present writer, was
published in 1862 by the Wilts Archaeological Society.1]
1 As the first editor of Aubrey's manuscript, Sir Thomas Phillipps
seems to have considered that he had some amount of copyright interest in
the volume. In a letter to the present writer, 7th April LSG2, lie says: 11 I
fear 1 must bring an action against the seller of Aubrey (it., the new
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Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Institutions of Wiltshire Clergy, from a.d. 1297 to
1S10. Folio, 1821-1825.
[A summary of the Wiltshire portion of t he Institution
Register of the Bishops of Salisbury; permission to use that
record having been given by Bishop Fisher, and the Diocesan
Registrar, Mr. Davies. It gives the names of both clergy and
patrons of livings, and, extending over fully five centuries, is of
great assistance to the Wilts topographer, supplying as it does
a key to manorial history.
The institutions from 1297 to 1596 (occupying 254 pages)
were printed at Salisbury. 1S21/2; and from 1 59S to 1810(107
pages) at the Middle Hill Press, in 1S25 — eight leaves of errata
being a subsequent addition. For the year 1597 no Institution
Register exists.]
Great Durnford Parish Register, 1574-1650, pp. 50.
8vo, 1823.
The Herald's Visitation of Wiltshire, taken in the
year 1623, by Henry St. George, Richmond Herald, and
Sampson Lcnnard, Bluemantle Pursuivant, deputies to
William Camden, Clarencieux, with some continuations
and additional pedigrees, pp. 262, folio. Printed at
Middle Hill, 1828. An index and two leaves of errata
were issued separately.
North Wiltshire Musters, Anno 30 Henry VIII [1539].
from the original in the Chapter House, Westminster,
pp. 30, folio. London. Printed by T. Gardiner & Son,
1S54-
"The certificate and view of able men, as well Archers as
Byllmen," with their names, and the number of horses, harness,
and weapons available in each parish and tithing in case ol
emergency. The hundreds included are Calne, Chippenham.
Cricklade. North Damerham, Highworth, Kingsbridge, Kinward-
stone. Malmesbury, Ramsbury, Selkeley, Staple, and VVhor-
wellsdown.]
Sir Thomas was also a contributor at this date to
edition, just issued) for infringing my copyright/1 but this hasty resolve
was soon abandoned, and .Sir Thomas became :i purchaser of the newly
published volume.
Wiltshire Topography [1659-1S43J. 155
Nichols' Collectanea Topographica el Geucalogica, 8 vols.,
1834-1S43.1
Memoircs of Natural Remarques in the County of
Wills, by Mr. John Aubrey, R.S.S. [1685], from a manu-
script in possession of the Royal Society, pp. 12, folio.
Middle Hill. 1S3S.
Particulars oj grants in the Augmentation Office, 1S39.
[These include grants from the Crown oi lands belonging
to some of the dissolved Monasteries in Wiltshire.]
Abbreviation of Feet oj Fines jor Wilts, 7 Richard I
[1195] to 11 Richard III [1226]; and Inquisitions post
mortem, 27 Henry III [1242] to 12 Edward I [1283],
• pp. 22, folio.
Index to Feet of Fines for Wilts, from 1 Edward III
[1326/7 J to Richard III [1483-5], from Lansdowne MSS.
306, pp. 27. Eolio.
Index to J' eel oj Fines Jor Wills, 1 George I [1714] to
11 George II [1737], zincographed, pp. 134. 1853.
Wiltshire Pipe Rolls, temp. Henry II [a.d. 1159-79].
Folio, pp. 135. 1853.
Wiltshire Close Rolls, temp. Edward III, ex MSS.
Phillipps.
Wiltshire Subsidy Roll, 7 Edward III [1332-3],
lithographed. Eolio, Part 1, pp. 45.
List of Wills Magistrates, 1483-4, 1503, 1642, 1 66 1.
Saxon Cartulary of Mahnesbury Abbey. Folio, pp. 25.
Extracts from the Registers of the Bishops of
Salisbury. Folio.
Index to Register of S arum Charters, from the Inner
Temple Library. Eolio, 1822.
Dignitaries of Salisbury Cathedral, 1321 -15 70; and
Elections of Abbots , Abbesses, etc., of the Diocese, 1310-
1458.
1 To these volumes the Rev. John Ward, Vicar of Great Bcdwyn, after-
wards Hector of Wath, near Ripo-B, was also a contributor of much valuable
Wiltshire material.
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Licences for Oratories, from the Registers of Bishops
Wyvil, Waltham, Metford, etc., 1332-1504.
Extracts from the Matriculation Books at Oxford,
for co. Wilts, pp. 4.
Grants of the forfeited lands of Edward [Seymour]
Duke of Somerset. Folio, pp. 55. 1866.
Lands leased by Queen Mary, during her reign, for
co. Wilts, etc., from Marl. M5S. 1192.
Wiltshire Inquisitions post mortem, 43 Elizabeth
[1600].
Compositions on Fines of Wilts Gentry, for not taking
the Order of Knighthood at the Coronation of Charles I.
Wiltshire Freeholder s Book, 13 Charles I [1637].
Wiltshire Gentry, temp. Charles I and II, from Harl.
MSS. Folio, pp. S.
Herald's Visitation of Wilts, taken by Sir Edward
Bysshe, 1677. Folio, pp. 23, ex MSS. Phillipps. 1S54.
Herald1 s Visitation Disclaimers. Folio, pp. 76. 1S54.
To these we ma)- add many separate pedigrees of Wilt-
shire families, including those of Flower, Goddard, and others,
of which a few copies only were printed from time to time
at the Middle Mill Press, and are now very rarely to be
met with.
At the close of the year 1856 Sir Thomas proposed to
print fifty copies of his genealogical collections for Wiltshire,
in three volumes ; and in a letter to the present writer, dated
17 December, desired the insertion of the following in the
local papers : —
"We hear that Sir Thomas Phillipps intends to publish his
collections tor the History of this County, in three volumes, small
folio, containing : —
" 1. Annals of the descent of property in the County.
"2. Pedigrees of ancient families prior to the Visitations ol
the Heralds.
''3. Pedigrees of families entered in the Visitations, and
others, to the present day, so far as he at present
•57
possesses them, or can obtain them previous to the
issue of the volume from the press.
"The whole to be in alphabetical order for more easy refer-
ence. Fifty copies to be printed."
The proposal, however, met with insufficient response,
and the "good design", like that of Aubrey, and others
mentioned in these pages, came to nothing.
We may next add, from the privately printed Catalogue,
Part I, of the Bibliotlicca Pliillippsiaua (of which there is a
copy in the British Museum), a summary of the more
important manuscripts in the Phillipps' Collection relating to
the County of Wilts :—
Transcripts of Monastic Chartularies. including that of
Bradenstoke (by Careless), Edyngdon (m two volumes), Malmes-
bury (by Hensley), Salisbury Cathedral, the College de Vaux,
and Wilton (by Hensley); with extracts from the register of
Maiden Bradley, the Glastonbury Cartulary at Longleat, and
copies of Charters of Stanley Abbey.
Lands belonging tothe Monasteries, Hospitals and Churches,
Surveys of Churches in the Rolls Office, and extracts from
Chantry Rolls.
Church Notes from Crudwell iby Le Neve), Enford, High-
worth and Kingsbridge (by Osborn), Kingston Deverell and Wish-
ford (by Offer).
Extract? from Parish Registers of Bradford. Chaldfield,
Clyve Pypard, Keevil. Semington, Steeple Ashton, Stratton St.
Margaret, and Wanborough. Dates of Wiits registers; and
extracts relating to Long family.
Chaitularies of the Darell, Hungerford, and Tropenell families
(extracts from), and Charters of Castle Combe. Compton Bassett,
and Longleat.
Court Rolls of Litelton, Lydiard Millicent, and Wanborough,
tenants of the Crown in Chief. 2* Edward I. and Lords of Manors
in Wilis.
Heralds' Visitations of 1565. 1623 and 1677, with pedigrees of
Wilts gentry of earlier and later date, from Close Rolls, Inquisi-
tions post mortem. Wills, and other sources, extracts from MSS.
in the College of Arms, arms ol Wilts families (emblazoned), by
158 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Thomas Gore, of Alderton ; also his Spicilcgia Hcraldica, 1662:
arms of Peers (emblazoned); arms from Churches in Malmesbnry
Hundred tricked by W. H[arvey?]; coat from Sevenhampton
Church window; list of Knights made by James I at Salisbury
and Wilton.
Deed of Confirmation of the foundation of East 011 Priory,
near Pewsey (16th century); with copies of, and extracts from
other Wilts documents in the Augmentation Office, Chapter
House, Westminster, and among the Harleian Charters in the
British Museum.
Extracts relating to Wilts from the Public Records, including
Domesday Book, Inquisitions post mortem, Feet of Fines, Close
Rolls, Charter Rolls, Pipe Rolls, Patent Rolls, Xonarum Rolls.
Inquisitions ad quod Damnum, Abstracts of Pleadings, Originalia
and Memoranda, Pleadings in the Duchy of Lancaster, Court of
Wards and Liveries, Marriages of Wards, and MSS. in the British
Museum.
Pedigrees and genealogical collections for the families of
Bendry ; Berkeley; Brynd of Wanborough ; Grove of Feme, by
Robert Grove, Bishop of Chichester; Goddard; Hussey; Long:
Phillipps; Spenser of Wilton (descent from Burnell); and
pedigrees from the Feodary of Beauchamp of Hache, the
Chartularies of Glastonbury and Malmesbnry, the Inquisitions
post mortem, Close Rolls, and Sarum Wills.
Miscellanea: Papers found in the library of Ferdinando
Gorges at Ashley; valuation taken at Box; rental of Calne
Manor, 1509, and papers relating to an election there; extracts
from Torre's MSS., and pension of the Vicar of Chippenham;
Orders and regulations of Corsham Almshouses founded by
Margaret [Halliday], Lady Hungerford; Osborne's letters from
Wilts; Scudamore Papers; and Star Chamber proceedings
against Henry Sherfield, Recorder of Salisbury, 1632, for breaking
a stained-glass window in St. Edmund's Chinch.
Forest Charters, Inquisition of Braden, Bounds of Selwood,
and extracts from deeds relating to Savernake.
Drawings of Monumental Brasses, Wilts and Oxon, 4U1;
Wilts Fonts and Arches, by Hcnsley ; and views in the County
drawn for Watson Taylor, Esq., of Erlestokc, folio.
In conclusion wc reprint from the thirteenth and last
sale catalogue, in June last, a few of the Wiltshire items
which are of especial interest : —
"An account of the Hospital or Priory for Canons of
the Trinitarian Order for the Redemption of Captives at
»59
Eston, co. Wilts,1 with the orders appointed, by Robert
Wyvill, Bishop of Salisbury, 1368, for its better govern-
ment. Folio, xvi cent." This unique MS. was unknown
to Tanner or the Editors of Dugdale.
"'To all and synguler wellbelovyd chyldren of oure Holy
Mother, the Churche, etc.. Robert, by the permission of God,
Byshope of Sarisbury Truly, the request of our
wellbelovyed in God, Henry Estormy, patrone of the Hospitale
Howse of the Holy Trynyte. of Eston, of our diocesse
allthowght yn tymes past hys antecessors, predecessors, pro-
genytores, had fowndyd the said Howse in the honor of the
Holy Trinite, and sufficiently hadynduyd the same and ordyned
hyt under a certen forme, that amonge the brederyn of the for-
sayd howse fyve prestys proffessyd the rule of the sayde
Howse, subjeclyd unto the Bysshope of Sarum, schulde syng
dayly fyve masses for the soulys of the founders,
progenitors, etc, of the sayd Henry Estormy shoulde
keipe contynewall resydeiice yn the same howse, and shuld
receive passingers, cokyng, logyng, c\: shuld exhybete to them
hospytalyte.' etc. It goes on to say how Edmuud of Pollesdon,
the governor of the house, had absented himself lor a long time,
and wasted the goods, so that all services were suspended,
and the brethren ' abhomynably wanderys yn stretys, townys,
and beggys as vacabowndys, mychars, and loyterars, eche of
them wandryng severally after hys owne plesure and
they byn seens to ryde forth to worldly common gamys, and
playes,' etc. How he had ruined the place turning the buildings
into stables for his horses, sold corrodies, etc., kept the common
seal in his own purse, etc. For these and other reasons Henry
Esturmy had complained to the Bishop to remedy the abuses
and appoint Robert Ingland as governor, and reform the
statutes, all of which are here fully set out.''
"An exact and perfect survey and view of the mannor
of Aldrington, or Alderton, co. Wilts, 1665, by Chr. Jacob."
8vo.
" It is entirely in the autograph of the celebrated antiquary,
Thomas Gore, of Alderton, and is the book he desires in his
will to be kept as an heirloom. This volume also contains
'TheCustomes of the .Manor of Alderton', and 'An exact <S:
perfect Survey of Surrenden, co. Wilts'."
1 Aubrey and Jackson, p. 381.
i6o
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
"Arms of Peers of the Realm, and Baronets of the
time of James I, 1603, at the creations of Charles, Duke
of York, Henry, Prince of Wales, 1610, Charles, Prince
of Wales, 1 6 1 6, and at the Coronation of Charles I."
Thick 4to, circ. 1616.
This MS. is evidently the work of one of the heralds, pro-
bably St. George. It contains upwards of 600 very fine coats-
of-arms, beautifully emblazoned, and formerly belonged to
Thomas Gore, who has added some notes, and whose very fine
book-plate is pasted at the beginning.
"Spicilegia Heraldica, e libris, qua manuscriptis, qua
typis escusis, aliisque monumentis, turn publicis, turn
privatis excerpta, in que locorum communium seriem
(juxta Joannis Gulielmi aliorumque magni nominis
scriptorum, methodum), digesta variis exemplis, em-
blematis, Hieroglyphicis, & plurimisque, in gratiam rei
heraldicae studiosorum observationibus locuplctata atque
perillustrata, &c, opera ab studio T. G., 16^2. Gori.
arms outside. Fol., 862 pp.
This fine volume, with full index, is entirely in the auto-
graph of Thomas Gore; opposite the title-page are his arms,
very finely emblazoned on a large shield ; throughout, the arms
are emblazoned and in trick.
"Astrological Papers, containing the Horoscopes of
John Long, born 1676, of Thomas Long, born 1678, and
of Walter Long, born 171 2," etc., 2 vols., xvii-xviii, cent.
This curious collection relates to Long, of Wraxall, co.
Wilts. It was at one time in the hands ol Joseph Hunter, the
Yorkshire historian, and he notes that they were bought from
the executors of Walter Long, of Wraxall. by Biuns, a book-
seller of Bath, from whose widow he purchased them.
"The Original Petitions of the Farmers of Wilts
against importation of foreign corn, 1S21 ; of Sarum,
against the Roman Catholic Claims, 1S21 ; of Sarum and
Trowbridge for promulgating Christianity in India, 1S13 ;
of farmers of West Wilts respecting Agricultural Dis-
tress, 1S20." 6 long rolls.
IViltsJiire Topography [1659-1843]. 16]
"An Assessment, made in the reign of William III,
for granting to him certain rates and duties upon
Marriages, Births, Burials, and upon Bachelors and
Widowers, for five years, for carrying on the war against
France with vigour," etc. Fol., 102 pp.
"Cartularium Monastcrii," etc., Edington, co. Wilts.
2 vols. Fol., 842 pp.
The giant by Edward I of this church and manor to
Romsey Abbey is recorded at the beginning of these volumes,
which contains 661 charters.
" Cartularium Abbatia?," etc., Malmesbury, co. Wilts.
Fol., 430 pp.
It contains 46S charters, referring only to Saxon and early
Norman times.
Besides the above there are deeds, court rolls,
musters, institutions, etc., relating to various places in
the County.
A writer in the Times of April 6, 1903, reviewing the
various sales of the Phillipps' MSS. to that date, remarks,
" The manner in which they are catalogued by the auctioneers
cannot be too highly praised, and all the more important lots
are described in the most exhaustive fashion. If Messrs.
Sotheby could see their way to adding to the last sale of all,
an index, of however summary a nature, to the entire
collection, they would confer an immense boon on students
generally." Edward Kith.
RECORDS OF WILTSHIRE PARISHES.
ERCIIFONT WITH STERT.
(Continued from p. 121.J
New Collkgk Register, p. 95.
a.d. 1387. — Fine made at Westminster in quindene of St.
Martin, 11 Richard II, and afterwards recorded in octaves of
M
162
the Holy Trinity, 12 Richard II, between William of
Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester, Master John of Wykeham
clerk, Master John Campeden, clerk, Robert Cherlton, and
Thomas le Warenner of Winchester, plaintiffs, and Elizabeth,
who was wife of Edward le Despenser, knight, late lord of
Glamorgan and Morgannogh, daughter and heiress of
Bartholomew de Burgherssh, knight, deforciant of the manors
of Sterte and Colerne, with the appurtenances of the
advowson of the church of Colerne, which William Burcestre,
knight, and Margaret his wife, hold for the term of Margaret's
life. Right of Bishop, etc., acknowledged, with warranty to
him and Masters John, etc., and their heirs, against Elizabeth
and her heirs forever. For 500//. sterling.
Ibid., />. 96.
a.d. 1389. — Charter of William de Wykeham, Bishop of
Winchester, Masters John de Wykeham, clerk, John Camp-
den, clerk, Robert Cherlton, knight, and Thomas le Warenner,
of Winchester, granting reversion of manors of Sterte and
Colerne, with appurtenances and advowson of the church of
Colerne, held by William Burcestre and Margaret his wife,
for term of said Margaret's life, to the Warden and Scholars
of the College called Seinte Mary College, of Winchester,
Oxford, founded by said Bishop, and to their successor in
free, pure and perpetual alms forever. Dated 1 April, 1 2
Richard II.
Ibid., />. 97.
a.d. 1390. — Pleas at Westminster, in the King's Bench,
Trinity Term, 13 Richard II. The Sheriff is ordered to
distrain William Burcestre, knight, and Margaret his wife,
by all their lands, etc., and in octaves of the Holy Trinity to
have their bodies in court to acknowledge what claim they
have in the manors of Colerne and Sterte, with appurtenances
and advowson of Colerne, granted by Elizabeth, wife ol
Edward le Despenser, knight, late lord of Glamorgan, etc., to
William de Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester, Master John
Records of Wilis hire Parislics.
163
de Wykeham, etc. [as above]. And the said Bishop, Masters
John of Wykeham, and Campden, etc., come by their attorney,
John Sutton, and say that William Burcestre and Margaret
his wife have attorned for the said tenements and advowson,
and ask that the fine thereof may be enrolled.
Ibid., p. 88. [Patent Roll, 14 Richard II, pt. 1, ;;/. 12.]
a.d. 1390. — Richard II confirms patent, [5 July, 5 Edward
II [Pat., 5 Edward II, pt. ii, m. 16.]: quote> Inquest held at
Colerne S February, 3 Edward III, post mortem Bartholomew
de Badlesmere. [The said Bartholomew held of late King
Edward II the manor of Castlecombe, with appurtenances by
service of one knight's fee; there is there a capital messuage,
etc. .... The said Bartholomew and Margaret his
wife held conjointly manors of Westheghtredebury, with the
hundred of Colerne and Sleurte with appurtenances, of
Edward, late King, of the Barony of Castlecombe, by service
of one knight's fee and a half and a fourth part, for their
lives, reversion being to the King and his heirs, and the
manors, with the hundred, being worth ^40 yearly, and other
property elsewhere] : and quotes a writ 12 Edward III,
directed to the eschaetor this side Trent, to deliver to William
de Roos of Hamelak and Margery his wife, a sister and
heiress of Giles de Badele^mere, deceased, with the assent of
John de Veer, Earl of Oxford, and Matilda his wife, second
sister, William de Bohun, Earl of Northampton, and Eliza-
beth his wife, third sister, and John Tybecot and Margaret
his wife, fourth sister of said Giles, to apportion to them
certain property in co. Kent, etc., and the manor of Heghtrede-
bury, as the property of said Margery, dated at Kenington,
20 November: all which the King confirms by request of
William of Wykeham. Tested by the King at Westminster,
9 November, 14 Richard II.
Ibid., p. 91.
Patent 14 Richard II, being an in=-peximus of (1) Inquest
post mortem of Walter de Dunstanville, 54 Henry III; (2)
M 2
164 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Of writ to the eschaetor this side Trent, 11 February, 54
Henry III, ordering livery of the lands of Walter dc Dunstan-
ville to Robert de Montfort, who has married Petronel, the
daughter and heiress of the said Walter; (3) Of patent dated
at Chester, 30 June, 2 Edward II, licensing Wm. dc Montfort
to grant the reversion of the manor of Stcrtc, etc., to Barth.
de Badelesmcre ; (4) Of patent to Hugh le Dispenser, dated
at York, 10 May, 15 Edward II ; and (5) Of patent to Henry,
Bishop of Lincoln, 22 February, 3 Edward III, with exempli-
fication of the same at the request of William, Bishop of
Winchester. Tested by the King at Westminster, 12
November.
Ibid., p. 97.
a.d. 1393. — Letters of William Burcestre, knight, and
Margaret his wife, formerly wife of Bartholomew de
Burghcrssh, knight, as tenants of Manors of Sterte and
Colerne, with appurtenances in Wilts, and of advowson of the
Church of Colerne, reversion thereof belonging to William
of Wykcham, Bp. of Winchester [and the others mentioned
above] and their heirs, which reversion the}' have granted to
the Warden and Scholars of St. Mar}' College of Winchester,
Oxford, and their successors, witnessing that said William
and Margaret have attorned of their fealty and by payment of
1 denier to said Warden and Scholars, and will grant that
they will do the same for said Warden and Scholars. Dated
14 July, 16 Richard II.
Ibid., />. 98.
a.d. 1394. — Indenture between William Burcestre and
Dame Margaret his wife on one part, and Thomas Cranlegh,'
1 Thomas de Cranlegh, 13. D., first Warden by Charter of Foundation,
20 Oct, 1382; Warden of New College 1397; Archbishop of Dublin,
Chancellor and Chief .Justice of Ireland, oh. 1417; in 1397 a Richard
Cranley, of Cranley, 1397, was a scholar of Winchester, afterwards a scholar
of New College 1399. Kirby's Winchester Scholars. According to Diet.
Nat. Biag, Thomas Cranley (sic) was born (?) 1337, was also Follow ol
Merton, Principal of Hart Hall, and Chancellor of the University.— [En.]
Records of Wiltshire Parishes. - 165
Warden of St. Mary College, and the Scholars of the same
on the other part : That whereas said William and Margaret
have surrendered the manors of Sterte and Colerne to said
Warden and Scholars, that the}', William and Margaret, shall
have all rents, profits and issues of manors from morrow
of St. Michael next, and shall have occupation of manors
from then until August without disturbance, the Wardens
and Scholars paying them for arrears thereof for that time,
the latter being bound for performance of same in 200 marks
to said William and Margaret, and during her life Margaret
shall present to the Church of Colerne on any vacancy arising,
the Warden and Scholars to forfeit 40//. if they present
to the church during term of Margaret's life. 20 June, 17
Richard II.
Ibid.
Indenture of the same date between the same parties,
witnessing that the Wardens and Scholars abovc>aid have
granted to William de Burcestre and Margaret his wife an
annual rent of 100 marks to be paid in equal sums at Christ-
mas, Easter, Nativity of St. John Baptist and Michaelmas
during life of Margaret, any parcel of said rent being in
arrears beyon' .jo days after any term, the Warden and
Scholars are to pay 20 marks beyond rent in arrears.
Ibid., />. 96.
B3' indenture made 20 November at Southwerk, 17
Richard II, William dc Wykeham has delivered to William
Stourton the King's writ directed to the sheriff of Wilt-- con-
cerning death of Margaret, late wife of Barth. Burgerssh,
whom William Burcestre, knight, afterwards married ;
together with line levied in quindene of St. Martin, 11
Richard II, between said Bishop and Elizabeth, wife of
Edward le Dispenser, for manors of Sterte and Colerne, with
king's letters patent of 22 November, u Richard II, and the
Bishop's deed of gift of reversion to Warden and Scholars ol
St. Mary College of Winchester, Oxon, dated 1 April,
1 66 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
12 Richard II; to be redelivered to said Bishop after the
inquest by virtue of the said writ is taken ; and if by force
they are taken from the said William Stourton, he may be
exonerated from redelivering them to the Bishop.
Ibid , p. cjO.
The King orders his eschaetor of co. Wilts, because
Margaret, who was wife of Bartholomew de Burgerssh,
knight, whom William Burcestre afterwards married, is dead,
to take into the Ring's hand all lands and tenements in his
Baliwick, which she held until further notice, and to hold an
inquest as to what property she held and who is her heir.
Westminster, 16 November, »; Richard II.
Inquisitions Post Mortem. [17 Richard I/, no. 3.]
a.d. 1 394.— Inquest taken at Warminster, Saturday,
13 December, 17 Richard II. Margaret, formerly wife of
Bartholomew de Burgherssh, kt., afterwards wife of William
Burcestre, kt., held manors of Stert and Colerne and advow-
son of the church of Colerne for term of her life, the
reversion formerly belonging to Elizabeth, wife of Edward Ie
Despenser, knt., Lord of Glamorgan and Morgannogh,
daughter and heiress of Bartholomew de Burgherssh, and at
the time of Margaret's death to the Warden and Scholars of
Seyntmarie College of Winchester, in Oxford. [Fine ot
Trinity, 12 Richard II, between Elizabeth le Despenser and
the Warden of New College and other deeds above.] 1 he
manor of Stert is worth 25/. Margaret died Tuesday, 1 July
last. John Pychard, aged 30, is her son and nearer heir.
Inquisitions Post Mortem Henry VII. [Chancery Scries, it,
Vol. viiif 114.]
P.M. Roger Tocotes, Knt.
a.d. 1493. — Inquest taken 29 January, S Henry VII.
Roger Tocotes, knight, held amongst other property in Wilts,
for his life with reversion to Richard Puddesay, efq., and hi>
Genealogical Notes on the Houllon Family.
167
heirs, 12 messuages, 6 tofts, 23S acres of land, 33 acres of
meadow, 70 acres of pasture, and 2^ acres of wood in South
Brome, Wike, Bcdburgh, Nurstede, Runclwey, Eston, Bishop
Canynges, Poterne, Wroughton and Sterte, worth io/., held
of Thomas Bishop of Salisbuiw, by service unknown.
E. M. Thompson.
(To be con United.)
GENEALOGICAL NOTES ON THE HOULTON FAMILY.
(Continued Jrom p. \ 13.)
10 Fagg. —Nathaniel Houlton, citizen and mercer of London.
Gr'ddau. Catherine Woolley ,£500 (under 21). Gr'dson Nathaniel, eldest
son of late son Nathaniel Houlton, ,£500 (under 21). Harbourn and
Mary Houlton, children of late son Nathaniel Houlton. Sou John
Houlton and his wife, and their children, John, Elizabeth and Susannah
Houlton (all under 21). To dan.. Mary Woolley, farms called Middleton
farm, in p. Norton Bavent, and the "colledge" lease and other property
in Wiltshire, paying ,£100 a year to sou John. ^50 to Workhouse in
Bishopsgate St., and ^50 to Bristol Workhouse. each t<> 10 poor
ministers' widows, as exors. think Ht. Brother Joseph Houlton and his
wife, sister Mortimer, cousin Mary I loulton, widow (relict of late nephew
John Houlton), cousins Richard Guppy and his wife, and cousin Jane
Houlton; cousin Robert Houlton, the minister, and his wile, cousin
Bleeke and his wife, cousin Webb and his wife ; cousin John Butcher1
and his wife, and to his son-in-law and daughter Wilton, and to his
daughter Anne and her husband; nephew Joseph Houlton and his
wife, cousin Bull and his wife, cousin Robert Houlton and his wife,
cousin Sassons and his wife, and cousin Elizabeth Houlton; cousin
Sheppard's widow, nephew John Mortimer and his wife, nephew Edward
Mortimer and his Wife, 2c„s\ each to buy mourning rings. Brother-in-law
1 I.e., Boucher, son of John Boucher and Anne (Houlton). Either
father or son may perhaps have been the brother John Boucher mentioned
in the Will of Thomas Boucher, of Ogbourne St. George, who was M.P. lor
Malmesbury, and died in 170S. ( II'. X ,\- (J.t vol. v, p. 143.) There seems
to have been a family of Boucher or Buclier living at Bromham about this
time, as an Elizabeth Bueher, of Bromham. married Moses llay lings, at
.Seagry, in lGSl. Is anything known about Mich a family !
168
Wiltshire Notes and Oni rics.
Roger Lilington and his wife, sister Mary Berry.1 sister Woolley, cousin
John Scott, Esq., and his wife, cousins Joan Rains-ford,3 Lister Tye,3and
Mary his wife, Samuel Watts and his wife, £\o each. Godson
Nathaniel Houlton (son of late nephew John), £30 when 21. £20 to
Richard Wavell "Minister of the Gospell", and £1 to Christopher Nosse,
Minister of the Gospel. £$ each to 10 dissenting Ministers of the
Gospel. /50 to Hospitals of Bridewell and Bethlehem'. £20 to St.
Thomas' Hospital. To poor of p. Bradford, co. Wilts, "the place where
I was borne " ^100, to be disposed of as my said brother Joseph Houlton,
William Morris, Esq., Edward Thresher and William Chandler, if living,
shall think tit. /20 to poor of p. Trowbridge, to be disposed of by brother
Joseph Houlton and Edward Davis. Legacies to servants. Residue to
daughter. He mentioned that' he has already provided for his sons.4
Son-in-law Wight Woolley & dan., Mary his wife, Exors. Brother
Joseph Houlton and John Scott, Escj., Overseers. Dated 26 July 1705.
Witnesses :— Win. Norris, Wm. Lewis, Thorn. Ollive.
Codicil, altering and reducing a great number of his legacies. Gr'd-
dau. Catharine Woolley's legacy reduced to £200. He leaves £200 to
grandson Houlton Woolley'' (when 21). He cancels his legacies to
Hospitals, and reduces his legacy to the poor of Bradford to ,£50. He
1 Widow of Daniel Berry, of London, merchant, who in his P.C.C.
Will (proved March lG98-i>, by Mary Berry, the relict) mentions his brother
Nathaniel Houlton and Elizabeth his wife, and their children. He also
mentions his daughter Mary, wife of John Scott.
2 See Will of Win. Whitchurch, 177 North.
3 Lister Tigh, of Hardenhuish ah. Harduish, co. Wilts., gent. He was
Lord of the Manor of Hardenhuish, and died in 1711. In his P.C.C. Will
he leaves to his brother-in-law, Mr. Robert Houlton, " my best saddle and
horse and my ftishing tackle", and to nephew Joseph Houlton, a saddle,
bridle, etc., and " ray best ffowliug pieee, setting doggs and all my rests".
Robert Houlton and Gabriel Goldney (his cousin) are to be his Overseers.
He also mentions :— Wife, Mary; bros.-in-law, Mr. Adrian Moore, Mr.
Richard Bridgman, Mr. Richard Gibson, sister Ursula Venner. wife ol
Samuel Venner, and nephew Robert Rhodes.
* In 16U3 he had given his elder son, Nathaniel Houlton, £5,000, and
his younger son John £3,000, and made them both partners in his business
His sons do not appear to have treated him any too well, and this is pro-
bably why he leaves his residuary estate to his daughter. See Chancery
Proceediiujs, before 1711, Keynardson 329-11 and 330-38.
5 Of Clapham, co. Surrey. His death, on 1 Dec. 1752, i> thus recorded
in the Gentleman's Magazine: — "Houlton Wooley of Clapham, Esq.; he
left his steward £40,000, and £1,000 to .St. Thomas' Hospital.'' He left
considerable freehold property in Essex to his cousin "Nathaniel Houlton
of the city of London, gentleman, .-on uf late Uncle .John Houlton".
Genealogical Notes on the Houltun Family. 169
mentions that his nephew, Robert Hou'.ton, Clerk, and his cousin Lister
Tigh have both died. Dated. 21 Jan. 1711-12.
Witnesses:— Adrian Moore, Th. Norden, Th. Kempster.
Proved 11 Jan. 1714, by Wight Woolley £"d Mary his wile.
130 Noel.— Nathaniel Holton, junr., citizen and mercer of London.
Mentions" my honoured ffather Nathaniel Houltun ". Personal estate
to be divided into 3 equal parts according to the custom of the city of
London. One part to wife Mary Houiton, kl in full of her Dower"; one
other part equally between children. Nathaniel, Harburne, and Mary
Holton. Out of 51c! part, £S° eacn •" Father and Mother, Nathaniel
and Elizabeth Houiton. To sister Lydia H mlton £50. To brother and
Uncle, sister White and Mary Woolley, ^.50 each. Aunt Berry, £\o.
Roger Lillington and his wife £\o each. Cousin Nathaniel Hothnam
and his wife £\o each. Legacies to sen-ants. John Hawkinson and
Katherine White £\o each. To poor of p. Alhallows, Breadstreet, £5,
and to poor of p. Casshalton, co. Surrey, £\o. ** \\"ell beloved" friends,
Samuel Jones, Esq.. Wm. Willmore, Esq., Col. Hyeons, Capt. Phillips,
Mr. Robert Davies, Mr. Wm. Walles, and Mr. Robert Dally, £5 each
for rings. Vers* good friend, Mr. Edw. Siacey, of London, scrivener ^50.
Mr. Chas. Mozeen £\o. Dr. Peter Noice. sen.. ^20. Sir Rice Rudd, 20.V.
Wife ^"ioo. To son Harburne Houiton "all my Houses in Tennis
Court'' (leasehold). Residue to Exor. "my trusty and welbeloved"
lriend Henry Goodrich, of New Inn. London, gent. House and land at
Casshalton. to son Nathaniel. Freehold houses in Fryer Lane, London,
Brother White Wolley to be Trustee for children. Exor. to pay John
Scott, Esq , and his wife, and Mr. Stephen Scott, ^10 each, and Thomas
Scott and his wife £$ each ; John Martin £\o\ Matthew Jenkins £20 ;
Welsh Toar £^ ; "loving" brother John Houiton ^.50.
Witnesses :— Jonath. Leigh. Tho. Ffarnolls, Ann Compton, servants
to Edw. Stacey, sen.
Dated 12 June 1700. Proved 20 June 1700. by Henry Goodrich.
174 Geh.— Mary Houiton. of London, widow. To mother, Mrs.
Mary Clay, widow, /300. To children Nathaniel, H arbor ne, and Mary
Houiton, ;£io each (all under 211. Cousin Nathaniel Gold, Esq., John
Scott, Esq., of London,. John Gold. 1 :" London, merchant, £\o each.
Residue to her 3 children. Mother, Mar)- Clay, sole Exor.
Witnesses. — Wm. Branson, Saml. Jugle.
Dated 1 May 1705. Proved 20 Nov. 170;. by Mary Clay, widow.
25S Richmond.— Nathaniel Houiton. of Stoke Newington, co. Midx.,
gent. To Uncle and Aunt Woolley £ I OO. To cousins Katharine and
Houiton Wooley £20 each. To uncle and aunt Houiton £20. To cousin
Wm. Cave and his wife ./20. To cousins John, Nathaniel, Susannah and
Mary Houiton, children ot Uncle John Houiton, £\o each. To Mr. Tho.
Arnold, Mr. Tho. Ring, and Mr. Tiis. Lloyd, all of Stoke Newington, £\o
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Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
each. To Mr. Eaton, the Minister of the Dissenting meeting at Stoke
Newington, ,£10. Legacies to servants, etc. Property in Reading and
Burghfield, co. Berks, and all other property to sister Alary Houlton.
Uncle Wight Woolley and sister Mary Houlton, Exors.
Witnesses. — Davd. Lloyd, Tho. King, Tho. Arnold.
Dated 31 May 1723. Proved 3 Dec. 1723.
P.C.C. ADMON., 1725.
On 27th Aug. 1725, administration of goods, etc., of John Houlton,
of Clapham, co. Surrey, was granted to Lydia Houlton, widow, the relict.
P.C.C. Admon., 1753.
On 8th Dec. 1753, another administration of goods, etc., of John
Houlton, of Clapham, co. Surrey, was granted to Nathaniel Houlton, the
son, the relict Lydia Houlton having now deceased.
177 North.— William Whitchurch, the elder, of Froom-Selwood,
co. Somerset, linen-draper. To wife Joan, property in Lullington and
an annuity of /70 payable out of property called "Oueene Field," in p.
Melksham, co. Wilts. Queen Field property to son Joseph, if over 21.
Son William. Son Joseph ,£2.000. Daughter Joan Raynsford ,£600.
Grandchild Joanna Rainsford ^400. Three Kinswomen, Alice, Ann,
and Joan Merchant, dans, of Henry Merchant, deceased. To two
grandsons, John and William Whitchurch, /200, when 21. ^5 to poor ol
Froom-Selwood. Residue to son William. Overseers to be brothers,
Edward Whitchurch, James Whitchurch, Samuel Whitchurch, Leonard
Whitchurch, and also George Hooper the elder.
Dated 5 Sept. 1681. Proved 4 Nov. 1681, by William Whitchurch,
son.
The following note should have been added to Robert
Houlton's Will, p. 1 13 :—
His mother, Elizabeth, was the widow of Thomas Slade of War-
minster, gent., who died in 1659. From Thomas Shade's Will it appears
that he owned considerable property in Warminster, and also property
in Trowbridge, Studley, and Steeple Ashton. He was probably ;>
lawyer, as he owned a collection of law books. For proof that she was
dan. and heiress of Bayley, and that she married Robert Houlton in
1661, see Chancery Proccedi)i^s, 1681, Collins, bob-x^.—^'ommunioilcd
by Colonel Morti»icr.~)
R. Boucher.
{To be continued.)
S/oh's.
171
STOKES.
(Continued from p. io-j.)
[Chancery Proceedings. Winter, 17 14-1758. Bundle 500.]
Stokes v. Andrews.
[Abridged.'] 7 June 172S. To Peter Lord King Baron of Ockham,
Lord High Chancellor, humbly complaineth your daily Orator, Edward
Stokes, of Tytherton Lucas, co. Wilts, gentleman, son and heir of
Abjohn Stokes the younger, of the same, gent., deceased, by Sarah his
wife, formerly Sarah Burgh, spinster, eldest daughter of Thomas Burgh,
formerly of [Greenwich ?], co. Middlesex, esq , deceased, which said
Abjohn Stokes the younger was son and heir of Abjohn Stokes the
elder, of Tytherton Lucas, esquire, deceased, who was son and heir of
Edward Stokes, of Tytherton Lucas, esq., deceased, your Orator's great
grandfather. That your Orator's great grandfather in his lifetime being
seized of and in the capital messuage or farm-house of Tytherton
Lucas, and of all out-houses, etc., thereto belonging, and a close of
meadow called the Sheephouse Leaze and the Bowling Alley, con-
taining 3 acres; a close of meadow of 26 acres called Homefield ; a
close called Little Mead of 6.\ acres ; three closes of arable land called
Broadfield, containing 26 acres ; 4 closes of pasture ground called the
Breeshes [sic], containing 34 acres; the coppice belonging to the farm,
and a close of meadow called Great Mead Leaze, and a close of pasture
called Starr Close, and 9 acres of meadow lying in a ground called
Westham ; a close of meadow called Calves Close, a close of meadow
called Gate Close, containing 7 acres, two meadow grounds called
Glasson's, containing 26 acres, 2 parcels of arable land, also called
Glasson's, containing 30 acres, meadow grounds called Bullmeade and
Humberne, containing 9 acres ; a close of meadow called Longmead, of
6 acres; a close of pasture called Warr's Leaze, of 18 acres; a parcel
of meadow of 6 acres in Westham; a messuage in Tytherton Lucas
called Great Snows, with a garden, orchard, and 2 paddocks, containing
2 acres thereto belonging ; 4 closes of meadow called the New Leazes,
near Stanley Bridge, containing 38 acres ; the meadow called the
Coppice Meadow, containing 8 acres ; a parcel of meadow in Westham
of 3! acres, and common of pasture and feeding of cattle in the common
grounds called Hamborue and Washball ; a messuage in Titherton
Lucas called Barneses Tenement, with an orchard and home-ground
thereto belonging of 2 acres; a messuage in Tytherton Lucas called
Angell's, with a garden orchard, a close of pasture adjoining of 4^ acres;
all being in Titherton Lucas, Chippenham, and Langley Burrell, co.
Wilts: Did in pursuance of articles of agreement made before the
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marriage of his son, Abjohn Stokes the elder, with Anne his wife, by
indenture, dated 14 March, a d. 1666, 19 Charles II, between him, the
said Edward Stokes, and Elizabeth ins wife of the first part, tin-
said Abjohn Stokes the elder and Anne his wife of the second pan,
John Taylor and John Hulbert of the third part, and Michael Naish.
gent., and Henry Rogers, gent., of the fourth part ; covenant to suffer a
recovery of the premises to said John Taylor and John Hulbert and
their heirs amongst other uses and trusts (except the premises herein-
after limitted to said Anne), to uses of Abjohn Stokes the elder and hi-
heirs male begotten on the body of the said Anne, with remainders t<>
him in tail special and general, and remainder to Edward in lee. And
as to the messuage or farm-house backside, or orchard and garden
(except the part of the messuage eafed the New Buildings and the
garden closed with a pale, the moiety of the garden and backside), and
also the closes called Calves Close, Oat Close, the Gassons, two other
Gassons, Bullmead, Haraborne, Longmead, Warr's Meade, 6 acres in
Westham, to use of said Anne tor her life in lieu of dower, as in the
said indenture had your Orator the same to produce may more at large
appear. And your Orator further sheweth that such recovery was duly
suffered; and that soon alter death of your Orator's great grandfather,
Abjohn Stokes the elder, being indebted to several persons to amount
of /h,2oo and upwards, prevailed on said Anne his wife to join with
him in levying a fine, as well of the said premisses so limited in tail as
of the premisses so limited to her, Anne, for life in order to satisfy Ins
debts ; and to that end by indenture dated 12 December, 30 Charles 11.
A.D. 167S, between him and his wire by the names of Abjohn Stokes, el
Titherton Lucas, esquire, and Anne iris wife, of the one part, and tin-
said Henry Rogers by the name of Henry Rogers, of Heddington, <"<>.
Wilts, gentleman, and William Dyer, of Chippenham, mercer, ol the
other part, he, Abjohn, for himself and his wife, covenanted that they
would before end of Hillary Term, then next ensuing, before his
Majesty's Justices of the Common P^as, at Westminster, or some other
competent person or persons thereunto lawfully authorised, levy a tin''.
sur conizancc dc droit, to be prosecuted in due form with proclamation
according to the common order of Fines, etc., unto the said Henry
Rogers and William Dyer and their heirs or the heirs of one of them ol
the said capital messuage, etc., by such apt name, etc., as by counsel
should be advised, which said tine to be levied of the premisses alone
or together, etc., should be and enure to use of Henry Rogers and
William Dyer and their heirs in trust for the uses hereinafter men-
tioned. As for that part of the capital messuage of Titherton Lucas
called the New Buildings, the garden enclosed with a pale, tin- moiety
of the orchard and backside belonging to the said farmhouse as the
same was then laid; and as to the buildings, the closes called Sheep-
house Leaze and Bowling Alley, Homefield, Littlemead Leaze, the 3
closes of arable land called Broadneid, the 4 closes of pasture called
Stokes.
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Breeches, and that part of the coppice belonging to the farm then
lately allotted to lie to the said New Buildings with their appurtenances
in Titherton Lucas and Langley Burrell for corroborating of a former
estate limitted in use to Elizabeth Stokes, widow, your Orator's great
grandmother, and her assigns for the term of her life, as expressed in the
above indenture, quadrupartite and from and after her decease as for all
the rest of the said capital, messuage, etc., and premisses not limitted
to use of Elizabeth Stokes for her life, except Greatmead Leaze, Starr's
Close, the 9 acres of meadow in Westham, Longmead, VVarr's Mead, the
messuage called Great Snowes with 2 closes adjoining, 4 closes called
New Leazes, the coppice meadow, the 3J acres of meadow in Westham,
the common of pasture in Humborne and Washball, the messuage
called "Bcames his Tenement" [called Barnes above] with orchard and
home-ground belonging, the messuage called Angel Ps with the garden,
etc., belonging. To use of Henry Rogers and William Dyer and their
heirs forever, in trust. First to the end that they, Henry Rogers, etc.,
at their discretion should bargain, sell or convey what part of the same
he or they should think lit to raise money for discharge of the debts of
him, Abjohn, mentioned in a schedule annexed ; and if any overplus
should be of money raised by such sale or mean profits of the premisses
before the sale of said lands or any part thereof more than sufficient to
discharge those debts and growing interest for the same, and all costs
at law which might happen in respect of those debts and the charges
and expenses of Henry Rogers, etc., in executing said trust ; then the
trustees, their assigns and administrators should pay the overplus to
Abjohn Stokes, Anne his wile, or such person or persons to whom the
immediate trust of the reversion or remainder expectant upon the
decease of the survivor of Abjohn and Anne should belong according
to the limitation and true intent thereof; and alter such debts, etc.,
satisfied upon trust that they the trustees should settle all the said
lands, etc., and premisses as should remain unsold to use of Abjohn
Stokes, the elder, and his assigns for 99 years, and after the expiration
of that term to use of said trustees and their heirs for life of Abjohn, to
preserve the contingent use therein alter mentioned that the same
might not be destroyed ; and after decease of Abjohn Stokes, the elder,
to use of said Anne and her assigns for term of her natural life in part
of her jointure ; and after deceases of Abjohn and Anne to use of Abjohn
Stokes, the younger, and heirs male of his body lawfully to be begotten
and for want of issue of all and every the other son of Abjohn, the elder,
by Anne, and of the heirs male of the several bodies of such son and
sons lawfully to be begotten according to seniority of age, and for
default of issue to use of right heirs of him the. said Abjohn Stokes, the
elder, forever, and to no other use whatsoever. And concerning tin-
lands called Great Mead Leaze, Starr's Close and the 9 acres of meadow
in Westham to use of said Michael Nash and Henry Rogers their
executors, administrators and assigns during remainder of the term of
Wiltsliire Notes and Queries.
99 years unto them limitted in use by the before mentioned indenture
quadrupartite without impeachment of waste to the intent by the said
indenture quadrupartite mentioned ; and after the expiration of the
99 years, to use of Abjohn, the elder, and Anne his wife during their
lives and the life of the longest liver, and after their deceases of Abjohn
the son and of his heirs male lawfully begotten, and for want of issue
to the use of the heirs male of Abjohn the lather lawfully begotten on
the body of the said Anne, and for lack of issue to right heirs of Abjohn
the father. As lor the messuage called Greater Snowes with 2 closer
adjoining, 4 closes called New Leazes. the coppice meadow, the three
acres of meadow in Westham, and common of pasture in Mamborne
and Washball, the messuage called Beames his Tenement with orchard
and home-ground, the messuage called Angell's with garden, etc.,
belonging, to use of Abjohn the father lor life; then to use of Michael
Nash and Henry Rogers, their executors, etc., for 99 years upon trusts
mentioned in the said quadrupartite indenture and on upon further
trust for said Anne for life, and after her decease to the use of Abjohn
the son and his heirs male, etc. (as before), provided always and it was
declared between all of the said parties that the aforesaid several
respective terms of 99 years of and in the land, etc., before mentioned,
limited to use of Michael Nash and H. Rogers, etc., were intended on
the further trust that in case Abjohn Stokes the son should happen to
live (or any other heir male of Abjohn the father on the body of Anne),
that yet Michael Nash, etc., should out of the premisses to them limited,
either by rents and profits vesting in them respectively or by fines for
leases or sales outright of the premises, should raise portions nut
exceeding the whole sum of £\,2oo tor the daughter and daughters <>i
Abjohn Stokes the father begotten on the body of said Anne, to be paid
at the times and manner to be appointed by Abjohn Stokes the father in
his last will, provided that it should be lawful lor Abjohn the elder by
any writing scaled with his seal and signed and executed before
witnesses to appoint, in case he survived the said Anne his wife, to the
use of any woman that hereafter should be his lawful wife an annual
rent ot not more than /50 out of said premisses, or any part thereof, to
said Michael Nash, etc., subject to such sales as Henry Rogers and
VVm. Dyer, or their heirs, should make of the same in satisfaction ol
said debts. Your Orator further sheweth that a line was duly acknow-
ledged pursuant to the last-recited indenture ; and afterwards the
Trustees mortgaged the premisses to James Wallis, of the City "I
Bristol, esquire, since deceased, for securing the sum of £\,2O0 for
payment of the debts mentioned in the schedule annexed m the last-
recked indenture; also that Abjohn the elder had contracted several
other debts to the amount of £2, 613 173-., and prevailed with Abjohn the
younger, your Orator's father, that his debts should be paid by sale ot
part of the premisses: therefore by indenture dated 19 June ioo.\
between Abjohn Stokes, father and son, and Richard Stokes, of Calne,
Stokes.
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they granted the premisses to said Richard and his heirs, on trust to
raise money by sale thereof for payment of the debts, and to settle one
moiety of the residue to use of Abjohn the father for life (except the
house, garden, and orchard which he was to have over and above
during his life), and after his decease to Abjohn the younger, his heirs
and assigns, and the other moiety to only use of Abjohn the younger
and his heirs and assigns forever, as might appear had your Orator the
said indenture to produce. After which Richard Stokes sold parcel of
the premisses, but not sufficient to pay the debts. And Abjohn Stokes
the younger, being about to marry Sarah Burgh, by indenture between
him and Thomas Burgh, of Gray's Inn. esq., and Sarah, eldest daughter
of said Thomas, and William Twyford, dated 29 June 1700, agreed to
marry Sarah on the 10th July, and that he would convey to said Thomas
Burgh and Thomas Twyford the capita! messuage, etc., of Titherton
Lucas, the Sheephouse Lease then converted into an orchard and
garden, the Home Field, Little .Mead Leaze. Great Mead Leaze, Starr
Close, meadows in Wcstham. Calves CI >se then converted into a
garden, Oat Close, Longmead, YVarr's Leaze, and parcels ot land in
Westham, the reversion of a messuage leased for 99 years by Abjohn
the elder to Thomas Beames, the reversion of an estate for 3 lives
granted to — Watts, deceased, then in possession of John Watts his
son, and the reversion of Starr s neve leases granted for 40 years to
Henry Goldney, 6 Feb. 1641. all which premisses, with the other
property in the occupation of Caspar Keiling, John Therewe and Thomas
Crooke, were granted by the two Abjohns to Richard Stoke-, ofCalne,
as aforesaid; the said settlement power to Thomas Burgh and William
Twyford to sell all or any part of the premisses to raise money for the
payment of the aforementioned debt.- and for purposes such as Abjohn
Stokes, the younger, and his intended wife, Sarah, should by their
writing under their hands and seals with consent of Thomas Burgh and
his heirs appoint : the settlement to be upon trust that Abjohn the
younger should be allowed to receive the profits of the premises unsold
by Richard Stokes during his life, he paying the interest and charges on
the same for the payment of debts, and after his death on trust to raise
^40 yearly, for the said Sarah, out of the rents and profits oi the same,
the residue of such rents, etc., to be paid to the first son of the said
Abjohn and Sarah, and his heirs male, and, for want ot issue, to the
second, third, fourth, etc., son, and the heirs male respectively of sifch
son according to seniority of age, and. for want of issue, to the daughters
of Abjohn and Sarah and their issue; and by the articles of settlement
Abjohn the younger desired Richard Stokes to convey to Thomas Burgh
and William Twyford, and the heirs of Thomas, all the said messuages,
etc.. settled in him as soon as the other trusts were duly executed, as in
the said articles had your Orator the same to produce might appear.
And your Orator is the eldest son of the said Abjohn and Sarah, and
Richard Stokes prepared indentures of lease and release of 23 and 24
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Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
May 1706, of the premises to Abjohn Stokes the elder and younger, bul
died without executing the said indentures, and your Orator is advised
that his interest in the premises is vested in Thomas Stokes of [blank],
his eldest son, intrust nevertheless fur your Orator, who lias survived his
father and grandfather, and in pursuance of said marriage settlement
became entitled and received the profits, rents, etc., of the premisses
remaining unsold and well hoped to have gone on doing so, but cine
Townesend Andrews, gentleman, of London, entering into confederacy
with Thomas Stokes, pretends title to the same by a settlement of the
premisses executed by John Townsend, citizen and soapmaker, of
London, on the marriage of his daughter Sarah with Thomas Andrews,
ol Highgate, and as the issue of that marriage and that John Townsend
had full power to make such settlement by indenture tripartite dated
13 March 1716, between Abjohn Stokes and Sarah, and Thomas Burgh
and Wm. Tvvyford and said J. Townsend, witnessing the absolute sale
of the premisses to the latter for the sum of ,£2,330. and that John
Townsend by indenture of 5 July 1720, leased the premisses to Abjohn,
your Orator's father, for a certain number of years under yearly rent of
,£106. Townsend Andrews being legally entitled to the rent and arrears
or pretended arrears of rent has lately destroyed your Orator's stock on
the premisses and threatens to do so from time to time, and has caused
one or more declarations of ejectment to be served on your Orator and
his tenants. In tender consideration whereof, your Orator's witnesses
being dead or beyond sea so that he can have no "manner of benefit >>!
their testimony at any trial at law, he desires that Thomas Stokes and
Townsend Andrews may be made to answer to the premisses, etc.
The Answer of Townsend Andrews, Defendant.
[This contains all the steps of the purchase of the premisses by
John Townsend from Abjohn Stokes, father and sou and Sarah, wife ol
the younger Abjohn, etc., the defendant referring himself for further
proof to deeds which shall be produced, etc.]
(To be continued.)
PECULIARS OF THE DEAN AND CHAPTER OF
SARUM.
(Continued from p. 129.)
1640/1.
Edwards, Richard, of Dorchester, Dorset, sadlcr, & Mary
Beehodd, \vid.,of Stratton, Dorset; B'dman, Ralph Tomlines,
•77
of Sarum, sadlcr ; 23 Feb. Seals : /// a circle a slag, and
Tomline's, In a circle a cross between four bezants ....
Hayes, John, of the Close, Sarum, 3reo., & Dorothy
Newman, of the Close; B'dman, Thos. Butler, of the same,
yeo. ; 22 Feb.
Kington, Thomas, of Fordington, Dorset, wollen weaver,
& Susan Bartlette, of Froome Whitfield, Dorset, wid. ;
Fordington Ch. ; B'dman, Robert Cossens, of Fordington,
taylor ; 4 Mar.
1641.
Bugler, Richard, of Sherborne, cordweaver, & Jane
Mitchell, of the same ; B'dmen, Oliver Muston, of the same,
inholder, and Robert Winsor, of the same, husb. ; 26 Mar.
Cooper, John, of Shaston, Dorset, barber-chirurgion, &
Anne Bowden, of Beaminster, Dorset, sp. ; B'dmen, Robert
Boddcn, of Sarum, bookbinder, and John Courtney, of the
Close, Sarum ; 26 Apr.
Phillips, George, of Upper Woodford, Wilts, husb., &
Mary Acreman, of the same, sp. ; B'dman, Ambrose Smith,
of Sarum, goldsmith ; 28 Apr.
Bugge, Nicholas, of Fordington, Dorset, tayler, 32, &
Dorothy Barnes, of the same, 31 ; B'dmen, Robert Scott, of
Okford Fitzpain ; Witness, William Pope. Seal : /;/ a
circle a ship ; 2 June.
Johnson, Robert, of Fisherton Anger, shoemaker, wid., &
Anne Andrubus, of the Close, Sarum ; B'dman, Henry
Johnson, of Fisherton, shoemaker ; 31 May.
Arnolde, John, of Sherborne, Dorset, yeo., & Jone
Rawlins, of the same ; B'dman, John Johnson, of the same,
maulter; 12 July.
Grist, Thomas, of Sarum, chaundler, 30, & Mary
Strugnell, of the Close, Sarum, 34 ; B'dmen, Andrew
Roberts, of Sarum, inholder, and Thomas Blake, of Sarum,
maulter; 12 Aug.
Parsons, Andrew, of West Camel, Somt., gent., 21, &
Mary Arnold, of Alton Pancras, Dorset, sp., 18; B'dmen,
N
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Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Charles Farr, of the same, yeo., and Robert Good, of
Sarum, inholder. Seal : Vaire or lozengy, a chief argent,
itiside a broad circular baud.
"Good Mr. Johnson,
"I pray send me a lisence by this bearer, my
man, who shall pay you for it, give him quicke dispatch
because he must be at home with me to-morrow in the
fore noone, the lisence is for one Mr. Andrew Parsons,
of West Camell, in Somerset, and Mary Arnold, my
Daughter. Thus not dowtinge of yor performance
herein, doe with my best wishes to you and Mr"
Johnson take my leave and remain ever yor assured
loveing frinde.
"John Arnold.
"Alton, this thirde of August 1641."
Seal (broken) : On a chevron six [? ermine spots]
between three pheons ; Crest : [illegible] and esquires
helm.
"Worthy Friend,
"I am now to intreate a kindness of you for a
friend as neere to me as an other self. My request is
y* you will as speedily as you possibly may dispatche
this messenger with a license for a marriage to be
consumated between Panic Godwyn c - Mary Gollopp,
of North Bowood, in ye same Netherbury^ widdowc.
What fees are due to you I send, but what fees I intend
to you I send not because the messenger loves not to bee
troubled with much mony. Indeede, I shall acknow-
ledge that you have obliged yr unwoorthy frend,
"Pa. Godwyn.
"Xetherbury, Sept. 4, 1641."
Hearne, Daniel, yeo., & Elizabeth Hallett, both of Ncthcr-
bury, Dorset ; B'dmen, Thomas Hallett, of Longbridd}',
clericus, and Nathaniel Brice, of Xetherbury, yeo. ; Rich.
Hooper, curate of Netherbury, signs ; 7 May.
Quakerism in Wiltshire.
179
Gudge, John, of Beaminster, Dorset, yeo., & Izolt
Minterne, of the same; B'dmen, Henry Gudge, father of
John, yeo., & Henry Powning, of the same, yeo. ; 26 Ma}'.
Sanger, Willm., of Mere, Wilts, yeo., & Joane Fleete, of
the same, wid. ; B'dman, Charles Stcre, of the same, yeo. ;
16 Aug.
Kingston, Alexander, of Remsbury, gent., & Anne Free-
man, sp. ; B'dmen, Alexander Kingston, father of Alexander
junior, gent., and Rowland Warren, of Sarum, inholder;
11 Sept.
Shawe, Willm., & Edith Oliver, both of Netherbury,
Dorset ; B'dman, Roger Shawe, of the same, yeo. ; 17 Mar. ;
Signed, Nath. Brice and Rich. Hooper. (Spelt Shave in
Par. Reg.)
Edmund R. Nevill.
43, High Street, Salisbury.
(To be continued.)
QUAKERISM IN WILTSHIRE.
BURIALS.
(Continued from p. 134 J
C (continued).
At Melksham, Josiah Chivers, of Melksham,
(many years) schoolmaster.
At Sarum, John Carpenter, of Wilton.
At Melksham, Esther Chivers, of Melksham,
formerly of Bromham, widow of Josiah
Chivers.
At Melksham, Elizabeth Coleman, of Melksham,
wife of William Coleman (a shecrman), age
65-
At James Marsh man's Burial Ground, at Show,
William Cookworthy, of Melksham, co.
of Wilts, surgeon, age 35. N.M.
772-1-28.—
775-3-19 —
777-8-28.—
785- 4-22.—
786- 5-13.-
i8o
/ Viltshire Notes and Queries.
1790-12-17. — At Melksham, Small wood Capper, son of Jaspar
and Ann Capper, of London, Middlesex,
age about 1 2.
1792-9-16.— At Melksham, Mary Chivers, of Melksham, co.
of Wilts, wife of Samuel Chivers, a<re 74
N.M.
1792-10-21. — At Cummerwell, Lydia Crew, of Bradford, co.
of Wilts, dau. of lames Weaver Crew, age
4. N.M.
1794- 12-23. — At Pickford, John Cor., of Pickwick, co. of Wilts,
widower, age 84.
1795- 9-27. — At Melksham, Mary Chivers, of Melksham, co.
of Wilts, dau. of Giles and Hannah Chivers,
age 2. N.M.
1800-2-9.— At Melksham, Samuel Chivers, of Melksham, co.
of Wilts, age 80.
1803-3-30.— At Commerwell, James Crew, of Bearficld, ph. of
Bradford, co. of Wilts, broad weaver, age
65. N.M.
1805-5-8. — At Bathford, co. of Somerset, Isaac Colij.it, of
Ridge Side, nr. Corsham, co. of Wilts,
banker, age 60.
1807-3-6. — At Bromham, Sarah Coster, of Thornham, co. of
Wilts, widow, age 70. N.M.
1813-9-1 1. — At Bathford, Mary Colli.it, of Jaggards House,
nr. Corsham, co. of Wilts, wife of Thomas
Collett, late a clothier retired from trade.
1820-2-20.— At Melksham, Elizabeth Coleman, of Melksham,
co. of Wilts, widow of John Coleman, age
70. N.M.
1825-6-26. — At Bromham, Ann Caude, of Hedington, co. of
Wilts, wife of lames Caude, labourer, age
57. N.M.
1830-6-21. — At Bathford, Mary Collett, of Corsham, co. of
Wilts, widow, age 87.
1832- 4-3. — At Bathford, Thomas Collktt, of Ridge Side, co.
of Wilts, age S7.
1 833- 6-2 1. — At Bathford, Ann Collett, of Ridge Side, co. of
Wilts, spinster, age 81.
D.
1700-8-19. — Sarah Dan I ELL, dau. of Andrew and Elizabeth
Daniell.
Qiiakeris»i in Wiltshire.
1S1
1701-4-25. — At Comerwell, Ann Deverall, late of Bradford,
widow.
•1 701-4-3 1.— Ann Deverall, of Bradford, co. of Wilts, widow.
1701-S-16. — Mordecay Davis, of Slaughterford.
*i7o5-7-S. — Edward Duck, of Calne.
*i7o6-6-25. — Robert Diar.
*i707-ii-io. — John Ducker.
•1707-12-3. — John Davice, of Slaughterford, minister.
•1706-3-26. — Elizabeth Dunn, of Fovant, widow.
•1708-11-6. — William Dow, died at Jonah Tylers, at Brad-
ford.
1 709-1 1 - 1 . — Hester Dovy, dau. of William and Jeane D0V3'.
1709-1 1-8.— Sarah Dovy, dau. of William and Jeane Dovy.
1 7 1 0/ 1 1 - 1 - 1 1 . — Elizabeth Davis, of Slaughterford, widow,
late wife of .Mordecay Davis.
I7ri~3*5- — Jeane Dovy, of Biddeston, dau. of Willm and
Jeane Dovy.
* 1 7 1 2-2-5. — Jane Dovey, dau. of Wm and Jane Dovey.
* 17 1 2-7- 15. — Elizabeth Day, widow.
1 7 14-10-22. — Elizabeth Davice, dau. of John Davice.
•1 7 14-4- 10. — Francis Dickinson, son of Caleb and Sarah
Dickinson.
1 7 1 7 3-3 — Wm Dovey, of Kington Langley.
1722-3-16. — John Davice, of Nettleton.
172S-7-13. — Mary Dark, of Slaughterford, wife of John Dark.
172S-9-6. — At Bristol, Caleb Dickinson, of Monks, ph. of
Corsham.
1 729/30- 1 2- 1 8. — John Davis, of Nettleton, son of John Davis.
* 1 732- 1 2-27. — Mary Dodemead.
*l 733-10-7.— Osman Day, of Lavington Monthly Meeting.
1734- 10-22. — At Pickwick, Robert Davis, of Corsham ph.,
was on the 14-10-34 assaulted and knocked
down in Bath and died with the blow.
!735-io-S. — Daniel Davis, of Corsham Rudge.
1736-6-2. — Margery Dyer, of Chippenham, widow.
1735- 3-S. — At Chippenham, Ann Davis, of Chippenham,
minister.
182
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
1 738-6-1. — At Seendrow, in his garden, Bartholomew Deere,1
of Scend Row.
1738-9-8. — At Slaughterford, William Dovey, of Biddleston.
*i74o-4-i2. — At Shotwood, Ann Dean, of ph. of Horsley, co.
of Gloucester.
1741- 10-3. — At Hullington, Jane Deek, widow.
1742- 11-30. — In a vault in her garden, Anna Deek,1 of Seend
Row, widow of Bartholomew.
*j 750-10-26. — At Calne, Mary Dyer, wife of Robert Dyer.
1750- 10-30.— At Calne, Mary Dyer, of Calne, wife of Robert
Dyer.
1752-2-3.— At Pickwick, Frances Dickinson, died at Bath,
dau. of Ezekiel and Frances Dickinson.
1752- 12-15. — At Pickwick, Mary Dickinson, parents of Monks,
dau. of Ezekiel and Frances Dickinson.
1753- 6-29. — At Comerwell, Mary Dudman, of Bradford, wife
of William Dudman, died of the small pox.
1756-2-26. — At Slaughterford, Jane Dovey, late of Biddestone,
widow and relict of W1" Dovey.
1756-1 1-26.— Jane Dovey, of Bidstone, widow of W™ Dovey.
1762-6-8.-— At Kingston-upon-Thames, Frances Dickinson, of
Monks, died at Kingston, wife of Ezekiel
Dickinson.
1775-6-8. — At Pickwick, in the family vault, Fanny Dickinson,
died at Clifton, nr. Bristol, dau. of Ezekiel
Dickinson.
1779-4-4. — At Devizes, Sarah Deerman, died at Devizes, dau.
of Wm and Mary Deerman, age 20.
* 1 789 . — At Devizes, William Dearman, of Devizes,
grocer.
1807-3-29.— At Melksham, Hannah Deverall, of Melksham,
co. of Wilts, wife of Robert Deverall, age
69.
1810-2-1 1.— At Melksham, Joseph Deverall, of Melksham,
co. of Wilts, son of Robert Deverall, age 54.
1810-4-4. — At Melksham, Edmund Darby, of Coalbrook Dale,
Salop, iron master, age 28.
1812-4-19. — At Melksham, Robert Deverall, of Seinington,
late of Melksham, co. of Wilts, shopkeeper.
Their tombstones can still be seen built into a cottage.
Thomas Banielt. 183
E.
1700-1-3. — Francis Edward, of Biddeston.
•1705/6-12-11. — Elizabeth English, dau. of Thomas English.
1712-4-6. — At Comerwell, Elizabeth Earle, of Holt, dau. of
Roger and Mary Earle.
1714- 9-7. — At Warminster, William Edwards.
1 71 5- 9-7. — Will"1 Edwards, of Baum, ph. of Warminster.
^171 7-6 — . — Elizabeth English, of Cain.
1724-10-25. — John Edwards, of Brideston.
1729-5-6.— Ruth Edwards, dau. of Walter and Mary Edwards.
1731-11-23. — Betty Edwards, of Chippenham Meeting, wife of
Robert Edwards.
Norman Penney.
(To be continued.)
' THOMAS BENNETT.
{Vol. iv,p. 180; vi, p. 134.)
In the third line of the Will, on p. 135, your correspondent
has the word "Chan'lour". When I made an abstract of the
Will a few years ago, I was doubtful of the word, and wrote
"chaunco", thinking it was a contraction for "chancellor", but
the Editor of the P.C.C. Calendar of Wills for the Index
Library correct^ gives the designation " chauntour",1 and
this is, I think, confirmed by the 19th line of the Will, where
the word "subchauntor" occurs.
In an article in the D. N. B.y on William Benet, LL.D.,
Canon of Leighlin 1522, Cardinal Wolsey's commissary, Canon
of Salisbury 6 April 1 526, Archdeacon of Dorset 20 Dec. 1530,
applicant for the Deaner}- of Salisbury, Ambassador to Rome
1528, till his death at Susa, in Piedmont, 26 Sept. 1533, Will
proved 11 May 1534 [which I have not seen], the writer
states : —
"Of his family nothing is known, except that he had an uncle John
'Canon Jones, in his Fasti, describes him as "Precentor", and <loe>
not mention him as "Chancellor". [Ed.]
Wiltshire Soles and Queries.
Benet, a citizen and merchant taylor of London, and that Thomas
Benet, clianullor [the italics are mine] of Salisbury, was probably his
brother.''
Has the writer in the D. IV. B. fallen into the same error
with this word, or was Thomas Bennett really chancellor ?
The early pedigree of the Benets is very difficult to eluci-
date. They were landowners and clothiers, seated especially
at Westbury, Meytesbury, and Norton Bavent, with branches
in Berkshire and London. It is quite true that the above
Thomas Bennett had a brother William, but he was not the
Ambassador at Rome, only a quiet country gentleman of
Norton Bavent, as appears by the following abstract of his
Will :—
P.C.C. [19 Martyn] 17 Nov. 1575.— Will. Bennett of Norton Bavent.
To be bur. in church of Westbury at my seats end. Poor of Westbury
4oy, of Norton Bavent iov., of St. Martyn's in Sarum io>\ Tho. B. my
son the lease of the parsonage of Westbury, the lease of the vycaredge
house there. <k the lease of the parsonage of St. Martin's, Sarum, & ol
ground called our Lady meade. To Will. B. my son the lease of the
sighte of the manor of Norton Bavent. commonly called the fferme there,
with all tenements & tucking myll, lease of a tenement lying at the
Crosse called the church house, four yard landes, late Will Moorys. To
Kath. my ivyf bedding of her 2 chambers. & to enjoy the parsonage of
St. Martin's, Sarum. <S: certain tenements in N. B. according to my
graunte to Mr. Giles Hussey of Sylton, 6: Lyonell Tytchborrne ol Sarum,
gent. To every servant 10.?., also every mail 6.?. $d. AH residue to Tho.
& Win. my sons & Exors. My bro. -in-law Henry Harvey. & friend Mr.
Walter Berrington of Sutton, overseers. & to each a ring of gold ol
2S. 6cf. Wit. by John Stanesbery, Will. Bennett, vycker of Westbury.
Rob. Merchaunte. Proved 6 May 1574 by Tho. & W. B., the sons.
By deed of 15 Dec, 1 & 2 Philip & Mary, this William
Bennett releases to Bryan Chamberlayne his messuages in
Newbery & Enborne, co. Berks, & in another deed of 12 Aug.
l553i 2 & 3 Philip c\: Alary, he is described as of Westbury,
clothier.
Y. L. Oliver.
GreenJull House,
Weymouth.
Queries. 1 85
Price of Wool.— In The Larchfieid Diary of Mr. Mewburn,
of Darlington, occurs the following, under 1829: "In conse-
quence of the withdrawal of the £1 notes, the finest wool in
Wiltshire, which, in 1S27, was sold for 25. $d. per lb., was
offered, in 1829, at is. 3c/." Why was this?
» Sagax.
Dositheus Wyer (vol. vi, p. 142). It is here stated by
your correspondent, Mr. J. T. Canner, that this vicar of
Chitterne buried his wife on 4 December 1655, and that he
"had the banns published for another in six weeks time",
and he proceeds to suggest that "this godly man" did not
exhibit much improvement on the "unworthy and scandalous"
ministers turned out by Cromwell. Mr. Canner has been
misled by the ''double date", and the confusion thus arising
between the historical and civil years. Dositheus Wyer's
wife, Margaret, died on 1 December 1656, and he married
again on 24 March 1656, />., in 1657 according to our reckon-
ing. Consequently his second marriage took place not six
weeks, but nearly sixteen months, after his first wife's death.
Dositheus Wyer matriculated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford,
in 1618, as "filius plebis", at the age of 17, and proceeded
B.A. on 12 June 1621. lie was vicar of Cam, in Gloucester-
shire, from 1633 to June 1635. He occurs as curate of
Leonard Stanley, Gloucestershire, in 1642. Millicent Wyer
of Chitterne, presumably his daughter, married, 12 May 1657,
Robert Atkins of Sutton Beriger, gent., but the date of his
death is not ascertained. I le was ejected for nonconformity
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
in 1662. The unusual Christian name is that of a monk who
flourished about 530, and is commemorated on 23 February.1
W. P. W. Phillimore.
Dositheus Wyer matriculated at Magdalen Hall, Oxon.,
17 Apr. 1 6 1 8, aged 17, being entered as of plebeian birth, and
of the county of Gloucester; B.A., 12 June 1621,3 Vicar of
Chiltern, Wilts,3 ejected 1662 for nonconformity. I cannot
give the date of his institution; but he was ordained by
Dr. Godfrey' Goodman, who was Bishop of Gloucester 1625-43.
Calamy, in the Continuation to his Account of Ejected or
Silenc'd Ministers, writes as follows: —
"P. 764 Chiliem* Mr. Dositheus Wyar. He was ordain*d
by Bishop Godfrey Goodman, who, by his name, took him for a Puritan :
but when lie told him his Father took his name out of the Apocrypha
[2 Mace, xii, 19, 24, 35] ' he was very well pleas'd with him. If the read-
ing of the Liturgy, without declaring unfeigned Assent and Consent,
would have satisfied the Law, Mr. Wyar might have continu'd Vicar of
1 Butler, in his account of him, says, "though he is honoured with the
epithet of 'saint', his name is not placed either in the Roman or Greek
calendars". — [Ed.]
2 In his most interesting Index, ix, to the Oxford Historical Society's
licgidcr of the University (1889), the Kcv. Andrew Clark shows (vol. ii,
part iv, p. 38) that Mr. Wier was the only matriculated person who
owned the name "Dositheus*' between 1571 and 1622. Of names from the
Apocrypha, "Toby" occurs for thirty-four Oxford men in that period.
Accepted Frewen, Sussex, 160-1, Purify Midleham, Somerset, 1610, Renewed
Jessop, Surrey, 1616, Calirn Humfrey, Essex, 1019, and Deliverance Wilton
(Magd. C ), 1605, certainly look like veritable Puritan names.
3 Joseph Foster, Alumni Oxon, 1 S., p. 1,602, no. 5. Foster gives the
reference " Calamy, iii, 360", presumably from an edition other than my
copy (ed. 2). The name is spelt " Wier" in the Matriculation Book, ed.
A. Clark, ii, 366.
4 Edmund Calamy names him among the Ejected or Silenc'd Ministers
(Wilts), under the name "Chiltern" (sic) Account, 8vo., ed. 1713, p. 764.
He names also one James Wyar as ejected minister of Baddington, Oxon.
(id. p. 541. See also Dr. W. A. Shaw's Church under the Commonwealth,
ii, 593). Jonathan Wyer occurs in Essex, Shaw ii, 379, under Koch ford
Classis.
5 This name also occurs in Esther, xi, 1.— [Ed.]
Replies.
Chilterii} For some Years after his Ejectment, a certain Church being
vacant by the Death of the Incumbent, he officiated for some time, with
the Allowance and at the Request of the Patron, who was his very good
Friend. But, as he was burying a Corpse, he was taken with some
Disorder, which prevented his reading all that is appointed on such
Occasions. This he never recovered; tho' he liv'd some time after,
and was visited by his Nephew Mr. Samuel Sprint, who was ejected
from Sou/// Tidworth in Hampshire. Me found his Uncle unable to
speak above two or three Words at a Time, so that those about him
could only guess at his meaning. While Mr. Sprint was with him, lie
apprehended by his Gestures and Motions, that lie was not so intirely
satisfied as he should have been, in what he was about when his Dis-
order seiz'd him. He had with some Application in Earnestness studied
the Revelation of St. Jo////, and had wrought himself up (as many others
had done) to a sort of Assurance, that Antichrist wou:d fall in 1666 : but
liv'd to see himself mistaken."— ConiinualioH, vol. ii (= torn, iv), p. 8S1.
In his MS. Noliticv Episcopi Santm, begun about 1669,
Bishop Scth Ward enters under Archidiaconatus Sarum,
Decanatus Wyly, Hundred Wox\yt\zx\\ "Y. Chittem All Saints,
Paironus Episcopus Sarum, ae. IB 516,- per Rob. de Wick-
hampton Episcopum, anno 12S0. [Incumbcn1s:~\ Gervas Bland,
dead; Anthony de la Court, June 3, 1676 (V. of Tilsde alias
Tilshed) ; [Fa/or], j£~ 95. or/., [Dccima] 15. gd. ; £6o os. od.
[circa 1670]; ^50 Dfuppa's estimate] stetf Y. Chittern S.
Marie, Patron Chri-tof. Sladc, vel. D.C. (= Decanus et Capit-
ulum), Sarum ; [Incumbents :] John Readman, Gul. Birstall,
Nov. 3, 1683; Joh. Goldesborough, 11 Sept. 1685. [l^a/or]
£6 os. lod. [Decinia] is. 6d. ; ^50 05. cd. .circa 1670].
J. Walker, in his Sufferings of the Clergy^ folio 17 14, does
not imply that there was any change of incumbents at
1 I have carelessly assigned D. VVyar to "Chilton" (instead of Chitternc,
alias Chiltern) in my List of Wilts Ministers, 1640-62, in Wilts
Archaeological Society Magazine, vol xxxiv, p. 1SS.
2 I believe that the monogram " lb" is Bishop Ward's manner of noting
his reference to a record of t lie Ajjjtrojtriatio Eeclesiae, folio 51G, of a
register at Salisbury. (Institutions, B.)
3 1 suppose by stct, Bishop Ward meant to say that on further enquiry
he found his predecessor's estimate more accurate than what he him.-elf
had put down on his coining to the See. He kept his note-book " posted
up*' from time to time.
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Chitterne during the Commonwealth. Gervase Bland, accord-
ing to Phillipps' Instiiutiones, became vicar of All Saints in
1 66 1, on the death of a predecessor (apparently not explicitly
named in the record). W. Napper [B.C.L., Trin. Coll.,
Oxon.] had been vicar, instituted in 1643; while for the
benefice of St. Mary's no account of any institution of a vicar
between those of G. Ditton, 1629, and G. Birstall, 1683, is
there recorded. "Jn. Readman" is named, without date, by
Bishop Ward as having served the cure.
Mr. Wyer was not one of the 82 " Ministers in the Countie
of Wiltes' who signed the Concurrent Testimon}'" with those
of the Province of London to the Covenant, etc., in June 1648.
But Edward Mitchel, of Chittern, was one of the Com-
missioners appointed for the County by the "Ordinance for
the Ejection of Scandalous, Ignorant and Insufficient Ministers
and Schoolmasters", 29 Aug. 1654. So no loyal "Church and
King" man would have been able to remain at the vicarage.
I can supply no information about Mistress Margaret or
Siscella Wyer. But surely the entries cited by your corres-
pondent from the Chitterne register of weddings, etc., imply
that a twelvemonth elapsed between the decease of one
spouse and the taking of her successor ;— viz., from 1 Dec.
1655, to 24 March 1656-7. This seems to me indubitable,
since the publication is stated to have been made in January
and Eebruary under an act (previously) passed at Lady-Day
1656. Moreover, Jan. 18 old style was a Sunday in 1657, and
not in 1655-6.
Chr. Wordsworth.
The Rev. Dosithcus Wyer suffered witli others who were
thrust into Church livings during the Commonwealth, for he
figures in Calamv's list of those who were ejected in 1662,
but it is hardly fair to charge him witli marrying in undue
haste after his first wife's death. The fact seems to be that
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189
he waited for over a year ; and this will be plain when it is
remembered that the ecclesiastical year, commencing on
25 March, was commonly used in Parish Registers at that time.
This must have been the case at Chitternc, because the
Agreement of Marriage was published in January and Febru-
ary "according to ye tenor of a late act made 1656, March 25",
that is to say in January and Februaiw after 25 March 1656.
The proper date for the publication of the Agreement in
January and February and the marriage in March would
therefore be 1657, according to our present reckoning.
John Sadler.
Browne of North Wilts (vol. vi, p. 142). — From a MS.
pedigree of Robert Weare, als. Browne, which has come into
my hands, I gather that Robert had one son, Richard, who
had three sons, Thomas, Clement, and Robert; there is no
mention of a John (Visit. Berks, 1623, Ashuwle MS.).
In another MS. pedigree, John Browne is stated to be
the son of William Weare, als. Browne, of Salisbury, inn-
holder (Will, Brudenell 33). E. Llewellyn Gwillim,
Eyre of Wilts (vol. v, p. 54). — Samuel Eyre, son of
Kingswill Eyre, married again after the death of his first wife.
I am not able to give the family name of the second wife, but
the fact is recorded in a Local Act of Parliament (46 Geo. Ill,
cap. cxlvi) which authorised the sale of part of the settled
estates. By indentures dated 3 and 4 May 1776, the Wiltshire
property was re-settled to the use of Samuel Eyre for life,
and of his daughters, Susannah Harriott Eyre and Charlotte
Louisa Eyre, after the death of his then wife Margaret Eyre.
J. S.
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
fiotcs on 35oofeeu
A Genealogical Account of the Mayo and Elton families
of Wilts and Herefordshire, and some other adjoin-
ing counties, together with numerous biographical
sketches. By Charles Herbert Mayo, M.A., Vicar of
Long Burton with Holnest, Dorset; Rural Dean, and
Non-Residentiary Canon of Sarum. Demy4to. 190S.
A new edition of a volume first issued in 1882, the
impression being limited to two hundred and fifty copies,
and the original text extending to some one hundred and
sixty-five quarto pages, reviewed at the time as a pattern
family history. The additional material accumulated by the
author in the succeeding quarter of a century has necessitated
the publication of a second edition (also limited to two hundred
and fifty copies), in which the scope of the former work has
been extended and its bulk increased to six hundred closely
printed pages— the new volume, in its present form, at once
illustrating the manner in which scattered material, treasured
up by distinct members of old families, thus brought together
and properly arranged for publication, may become of perma-
nent interest, when otherwise it might eventually have been
either lost or destroyed — and we heartily congratulate its
author on the satisfactory completion of a work which must
necessarily have involved much laborious research, containing
as it docs a most carefully compiled and exhaustive genealogy
of a famity for generations connected with our own, as well as
several adjoining counties, and now honourably represented,
both in the United States and South Australia.
The name, variously ^pelt — Mayhowe, Mayhew, Mayow,
Mayo, Maio— is found in the counties of Cornwall, Dorset.
Gloucester, Hereford, Northampton, Middlesex, Kent, Norfolk,
and Suffolk, but Wiltshire, as the author remarks in his intro-
ductory chapter, still remains reserved to the last as particu-
larly interesting to those who are concerned in the content-
Notes on Books.
191
of this volume. More than one family of the name are here
found. Mayow of Dinton figures in the Heralds' Visitations
of 1565 and 1623, and from this source probably sprang
Thomas May hew, who emigrated to Boston from Salisbury
between 1630-40, and whose descendants are numerous in
New England. Berwick St. John had also, for some genera-
tions, a family of the same name. Poulshot was the home of
another family which also has given its offspring to the New
World; and from William Mayo, who emigrated before 1720,
has arisen one of the most influential families of Virginia. It
ma}r be remarked that in the Poulshot register the name is
written as May previous to 1635, as May and Mayo indis-
criminately between 1635 and 1640, and as Mayo after the
year last named. At Potterne was a family at first named
Mayow, whose name eventuall}' crystallized as May. Somcr-
ford Magna was the home of another Mayo stock, and from
Melksham sprang a family of May, branches of which became
landowners in Broughton Gifford and Charterhouse Hydon,
Somerset. At Devizes was married, in 167 1, John Mayo,
from whom are deduced the numerous offspring whose genera-
tions are chronicled in no less than six distinct chapters of the
present volume.
From this John Mayo, of Devizes, who settled in St.
John's Parish, and on the 25 April 1671 married, at St.
Mary's, Joan, the second daughter of William Mayes the elder,
gent., 03' whom he had eight sons, descended in the male line
no less than thirty-eight University men, four of whom held
in succession the Vicarage of Avebury, from 1712 to 1851. A
grandson, the Rev. John Mayo, was Rector of Beechingstoke,
where he rebuilt the Parsonage House in 1743-4, and in 1762
was presented to Wilcot. A great grandson, the Rev.
Charles Mayo, who is still remembered as the liberal founder
of two Exhibitions for sons of Wilts Clergy, was successively
Chaplain of Froxficld, Rector of Huish 1775, and of Beeching-
stoke 1779, both of which latter he held until his death
in 1829.
I92
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
From Charles, eighth son of the elder John Mayo, of
Devizes, descended the Rev. Joseph Mayo, for eighteen years
[1788- 1 806] Curate of Seend, who married Mary Jane, only
daughter of the Rev. George Gibbes, D.D., Rector of Wood-
borough. Of their children, Joseph, baptized at Seend in 1 793,
was Curate of Poulshot, and Chaplain of the New Prison at
Devizes [1823-39], in which latter year' he left England, with
his family, for the United States, where, dying in 1859, he has
left many descendants.
To the medical profession the family of Mayo has also
given several distinguished members, e.g., Thomas Mayo,
M.D., F.R.S., F.R.C.P., President of the Royal College of
Physicians, London ; and in this brief notice of the contents
of the volume we must not omit mention of Mr. John Horsley
Mayo [1838-95], Assistant Military Secretary in the India
Office, and grandson of the Rev. James Mayo [1789-1822],
Vicar of Avebury. Me was the author of a History of
Medals and Decorations of the British Army and Navy—
a sumptuous work, in two volumes, dedicated to Her late
Majesty, Queen Victoria, in the year of her great Jubilee.
He was a frequent visitor at Avebury , -where he purchased a
small house, and was a generous contributor towards the
restoration of its ancient church, completed in 1S83, the new
clock then placed in the tower being a memorial of his sister,
who predeceased him, and whose remains, with his own, now
rest peacefully in the adjoining graveyard, beneath its
shadow.
A chapter is also devoted to an account of certain families
which have intermarried with John Mayo of Devizes [1671-92]
and his descendants ; and much interesting matter, both
genealogical and historical, is scattered throughout the volume.
It is printed at the Chiswick Press, in Messrs. Whittingham's
best style, on hand-made paper — its numerous illustrations
indicate the latest improvements in the processes of photo-
engraving-- and, what is essential in such a work, it also
contains an excellent index. K. K.
STOKES' BRASS IN SEKXU CHL'.KCH.
(ESatltst)tre jEotes anti litems,
MARCH, 1909.
STOKES.
(Continued from p. 176.)
Pedigree.
'PflBl *S a^out tnree_cluarters °f a }'ar<J wide, and four
V 1 Pk ^arc's anc* a na^ ^on»> composed of several skins
*|£j±r*/? glued together. The Anns, amounting to over
yy^Tjr sixty coats, are well blazoned in colours ; and where
\5i^» those of any family have not been ascertained,
blanks are left. Towards the end is an escutcheon of
six quarters, viz., 1, Stokes j 2, Snell; 3, Keynell ; 4,
Sadler; 5, Newman; 6, Snell, quartering Keynell; Crest,
a demi-lion rampant double queued argent, armed, and langued
gules ; and on the skin above this is a drawing of a lion
rampant doubled queued ermine, holding a tilting-spear, thereon
a pennon. There are several extracts from deeds, etc., em-
bodied elsewhere in this work ; the whole is well executed,
and was well preserved when the writer saw it in 1S89.
Whatever appears in italics, except the blazon, does not occur
in the pedigree.
Adam de Stokke held the manor of Rutishall and the mannor of
Stokke, in com. Wilts ; Eve, his wile, in tempore Edvv. II, anno 1312 ;
Hoc manifesto apparuit p' Record Tun is Londoni, ob. 1335. She mar.
( 2) Robert Hungerford, s.p. Had issue
I. Patric Stokke, one of sons of the afore-said Adam.
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II. Roger de Stocke, held the niannor of Wolshall and other
lands in com. Wilts. Obijt, 6 Edw. Ill, 1331. Had issue:—
Edw: de Stokke died seized of the mannor of Rustishall and
the mannor of Stokke in com. Wilts. Ob. 1362. Had issue : —
John de Stokke died in his minority, without issue, 1356.
1. Isabella de Stokke, one of the heirs of her nephew John ;
married Danvers. Gules, a chevron between three mullets
of six points or. Had issue.
2. Margaret de Stokke, married John Weston. Gules, on an
escocheon within an orlc of bezants a fess sable.
IV. From another sou, not named, descends, in the sixth generation,
William Stoke atte Brington, in com. Berkes, who has John Stoke, son
and heire.
III. Thomas Stoke de SENDE in com. Wilts, Ed. 3, has a son,
Thomas Stoke de Sende, 5 R. 2, 1381, has a son, John Stoke de Sende,
Hen. 4, has a sou, Thomas Stoke de Sende, Hen. 5, has a son, John
Stoke de Sende, 3 Hen. 6, 1425, has a sou, Thomas Stoke de Sende,
11 Hen. 7, 1495, nas issue : —
I. W7alter Stokes ; III. Thomas Stokes, who both leave issue.
II. John Stokys de Sende in com. Wilts, erected the Chappel in
Sende 1498, and has issue Robert Stokys, 2nd son, leaving issue; and
John Stokys, 3rd son, mar. to Agues {and have issue) ;—
John STOKYS,1 his eldest son and heire; mar. Margery,
daughter of John Nicholas, of Rundwale. Sable, a I/'oji rampant
double queued ermine, armed and langued gules, Stokes, impaling,
Azure, a chevron engrailed between three owls closed or, and has
issue,
I. Wm. Stokys de Sende in com. Wilts. This descent is not con-
tinued, but underneath in the same column at intervals the following
names .-—Nicholas Stokys de Sende, William Stokys de Sende, William
Stokes de Sende, al's Sene, in com. Wilts.
II. John Stokes, has a sou, Edmund Stokes of Langley Burrell,
held part of the mannor of Titherton in com. Wilts, mar. Edith, daugh-
ter of Nicholas Snell, of Kington ; Stokes (/he lion argent, not ermine),
impaling, Quarterly ^ules and azure, a cross botiony or; who have
issue, Christopher Stokes of Titherton in com. Wilts, mar. Prudence,
daughter of Thomas Ivye of West Kington, Esq. Stokes (as last)
impaling, Argent, a lion rampant gules ; and have issue. Thomas
Stokes, ob. 1654; mar. 1st Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Young oi
Little Dornford (and 2nd Ann, dan. of Thos. Cheeke of Molston, co.
Hants, ob. 1660, by whom he has issue, Thos. s.p., Francis, fob u, Christo-
pher, born 1620, George, born 1621, William, Ann, Elizabeth, Lucy,
Dorothy, Ursula, born 1623); who have issue, Thomas, bom ibio, Charles,
Called "of Sarurrt" in Visitation of Wilts, 15G5.
Stokes.
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bom 1612, Susan, bom /609. Stokes (as last), impaling, Vaire, on a
chief gules three lions rampant or; and have as youngest sonne,
Edward Stokes de Tytherton, bom 1615, died 1667; mar. 1st,
Mary, dan. of . . . . Abjohn in London 1640, died in Clap-
ham 1644; (and 2nd, Eliza James, widow of Richmond James, and
dan. of Thos. Jacob of Wootton Bassett. gent., and Alice^ dan. of
Thomas Mills of Rodborne ; mar. 1644, died 1633, and had a dan.
Eliza bom at Tytherton 1653 — see Genealogist. N.S., xiii, 1S8).
Stokes (as last) impaling, Argent, a fess sable ; and have issue,
Christopher Stokes of Whitchurch, and
Abjohn Stokes, mar. Ann, dan. and coheir of John Scott of
Hedington Week in com. Wilts, yeoman, and have issue,
Abjohn Stokes of Titherton, cb. July 7, 1723, o:t. jj>, mar.
Sarah, eldest dan. of Thos. Burgh, of in com. Essex, and
of Gray's Inn, Barrister-at-Law, died Apr. 4. 1734. ad. 33; and
have issue, 1, Edward Stokes, born 1701: 2, Thomas; 3,
Thomas, bom St. Thomas' day, 17 12 ; 4, Abjohn Stokes; 2, Frans.
1706-11 ; 3, Ann, born 1709, and,
Sarah Stokes, eldest dan., born 1703; mar. 1724, Thomas
Stokes {Captain), eldest son of Richard Stokes of Calue, and
Eleanor his wife, Stokes {as first), impaling Stokes {as last);
and have issue, Thomas Stokes of Stanshawe, born 1725, who
has a. sou, Thomas Stokes of Stanshawes and Hardivick, near
Chcpstozu, died 1803; mar. Anne, dan. of Major Aldey, aide-
camp to the 1st Duke of Marlborougi:, -who has a sou, Tho?)ias
Stokes of Bristol, Attorncy-at-Baw, and often cards of Stan-
shawes; mar. Sarah, date, of Prick ard of Hawkes-
bury Upton, and have issue,
Adrian Stokes, of Stanshawes, died 1S33 >' m<&
Rolph, of Thombury, s.p. ;
John Stokes, born iygo; and besides other children,
Edward Stokes, mar A 'way of Aust. who has a son,
Adrian Stokes of Wickwar, M.D.
III. Christopher Stokes (sou of John and Margery Stokes—
see above), of Stanshawes Place, in com. Glouc, 1566: mar. Anne, dau.
of Lester de Christian Malford in com. Wilts, Stokes im-
paling , and have issue,
Anthony Stokes de Stanshawes in com. Glouc, died 1595 ; mar.
1st, May 8, 11 Eliz., 1569, Margaret, dau. of Kichd. Scrope of Castle
Combe, s.p., Stokes, impaling Azure, a bend argent \ 2nd, Jane,
dau. of Richard Browning, of Cowley, in com. Glouc, Stokes,
impaling Barry wavy of six argent and azure ; and have issue,
Christopher Stokes de Stanshawes, mar. ist, Alice, dau.
of John Parker ot Barnwood in com. Glouc; she died April
1613; Stokes, impaling Sable, a buck trippant between three
arrows argent, a bordure engrailed or ; mar., 2nd, Barbara, 2nd
o 2
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dau. of Sir Thomas Snell, Knight, and sister of Sir Charles
Snell of Kington, Knight; Stokes, impaling Snell; by his 1st
wife has issue, Daniell Stokes obijt in minoritate, Elizabeth,
eldest dan., born Oct. 18, 1606 ; died August 16, 1638, and,
John Stokes, 2nd son, de Codrington in com. Glouc, born
March n, 1609; mar. Martha Grandgorge. dau. of
Grandgorge of in com. Norfolk, Stokes, impaling
Azure, three thistle-heads or, (? ears of guinea wheat), a fid have
issue, Willm. Stokes, eldest son, s.p., John Stokes, of Churchill
in com. Somerset, gen., mar. Mary.
SAMUELL Stokes (eldest son and heir of Christopher), mar.
Isabella, dau. of Richard Codrington de Dodington in com.
Glouc, Esq. ; Stokes, impaling Argent, a /ess sable between
three lions passant gules ; and have issue, Richard Stokes, 2nd
son, born Aug. 20, 1629; Anne, born Oct. 26, 1635; Mary, born
Oct. 8, 163S; Isabella, born Feb. 7, 1646; Joyce, the wife of
Haynes, of Gloucester citty, born March 4, 1628;
Eliz., the wife of Scot of the citty of Bristoll, gent.,
born Apr. 5, 1637, and Thomas Stokes, 3rd son, born Feb. 9,
1646 (who has a son, Thomas Stokes of Wickwar in com.
Glouc, attorney-at-law, mar dau. of Micks, of
West End in com. Glouc, gent., and have issue, Samuel Stokes,
Edward Stokes, Elizabeth Stokes).
Edward Stokes, eldest son and heir, of Stanshawes, born Nov. 30,
1627 ; mar. Margaret, dau. and coh. of Henry Newman, gent., cousin
and coh. of Sir Charles Snell, Knight ; Stokes, impaling Per pale gules
and vert, three eagles displayed or; mar., 2nd, Elizabeth, dau. of Richard
Poole, of Newton in com. Wilts ; Stokes, impaling Azure, semy of
fleurs-dc-lys or, a lion rampant argent, by whom lie has issue,
Richard Stokes, eldest son and heir, attorney-at-law, of Calne
(sec above), mar. Judith, dau. of Bloome, of Seaven Oake in
Kent, uxor 2nd, by whom a dau. Judith ; mar., 1st, Eleanor, eldest dau.
of Thomas Lambert of Boyton in com. Wilts, Esq.; Stokes, impaling
Argent, on a bend engrailed between two lions rampant sable three
annulets or; and have issue, Thomas Stokes, eldest son, mar. Sarah
Stokes (sec above); 2, Richard Stokes; 3, Charles Stokes, mar. Eliz.,
dau. of Charles .... of Farnham Royal in com. Bucks., gent.; Stokes,
impaling Or, a lion rampant azure; and Eleanor Stokes.
The above named Edward Stokes has also, 2, Edward Stokes; 3,
Charles Stokes ; 4, William Stokes; 5, Samuel! Stokes {who has a son
and heir, Edward Stokes, mar. Penelope, dau. of Thomas Carew ol
Camcrton, co. Somerset. Esq., and Eliz , mar. John Prouse, leaving
issue) ; 6, Thomas Stokes, who has two dam., one of whom, Mary, mar.
Wells oi Bristol, attorney-at-law ; 7, Poole Stokes.
Christopher Stokes, by his 2nd wife Barbara {see above) lias issue.
Ann, fil. nat, max. Oct, ; 6 1 9 ; obijt 1701 ; mar. Charles Snell of Hill
Association Oath Rolls for Wiltshire. 197
House, in p'ish of Box in com. Wilts, gen., son and heir of John Sncll of
Aldersoll in com. Dorset; Snell, impaling Stokes, leaving issue;
Katherine Stokes, 2nd dau. na. Nov. 1625 ; obijt sine p'le ; mar. Thomas
Green of the citty of Bristol! ; and
Thomas Stokes de Kington, only son; mar. Jane, dau. of William
Bayley of Sherington ; Quarterly Stokes and Snell, impaling Gules, an
escochcon per pale argent and azure; has issue, Charles Stokes, eldest
son, nat. 2nd May 1641 ; obijt crclebs ; 2, William, bapt. n° Sept. 1645,
et sepullus crat 2° Junii 1646; 3, John, of Kington, Esq., bap. 11 May
1647 ; mar. Katharine, dau. and heir of Edward Andrews, gent., Stokes,
impaling Gules, a saltire argent (has issue John, son and heir, and Jane);
4, Edmund, bapt. 15 March 1648, oh. cajlebs ; 5, Thomas de Kington St.
Mich.; mar., 1st, Margaret, 3rd dau. of John Sadler and Ann his wife,
Stokes, impaling Or, a lion rampant per /ess azure and gules, armed
and langued. argent, and has son and heir, Thomas, mar., 2nd, Lucy,
only dau. of Harrwood, Preb. of Gloucester, Stokes, impaling
Azure, a chez'rou ermine between three martlets argent; 6, Walter,
of Covent Garden, bapt. 30 Dec. 1652; mar. Judith, dau. of
Welles, and has issue Walter, Thomas, Katharine and Ann ; 7, William,
bapt. Mar. 1659, ob. aelebs, 8, James; nat. 18 Apr. 1 662, ob. caelebs, Jane
eldest dau., nat. 12 Dec; Deborah, nat. iS Maij 1655; Dorothy, nat.
2 Apr. ; Ann, nat. 3 Dec. 1657; Eliz., nat. \Q Julii 1658, et sepultus erat
5 Dec. 1661.
(To be continued.)
ASSOCIATION OATH ROLLS FOR WILTSHIRE.
The Association, the lists of the Wiltshire signatories to
which I propose to print in this and the successive numbers
of Wiltshire Notes and Queries, was the outcome of a burst of
popular feeling in favour of William III, engendered by the
discovery of a plot, said to have been formed by the more
desperate of the adherents of James II, to assassinate William,
on the 15th February 1695/6, as he was returning by way of
Turnham Green from hunting in Richmond Forest.
The King was induced to postpone his hunting, the plot
fell through, and when the ringleaders were arrested the
details of the alleged conspiracy, with its French support,
became public knowledge; these details will be found fully
set out in a letter written from Kensington about 13 March
i98
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
1695/6 by Lord Portland to Lord Lexington, then British
Minister at Vienna, and published in the Lexington Papers,
1851.
Another letter from Paris to Lord Lexington, dated Paris,
26 March 1696, says: "Main* persons here assert that there
never was any real conspiracy against King William's life.
The)' say that the alleged plot was a contrivance of the
Government, who, when they heard of the preparations at
Calais, used this artifice to ascertain the sentiments of the
Parliament with regard to King James and to revive the
popular feeling against him."
Whether this be true or not I am not concerned to say ;
whatever the object, at least (from the point of the searcher
for records) it had most gratifying results: the House of
Commons at once passed measures to suspend the Habeas
Corpus Act and to provide for the continuance of Parliament
in the event of William's death ; and, most important of all,
the Commons drew up an Association by which it bound itself
to defend William-, to avenge him should he be slain, and in
any event to carry out the provisions of the Bill of Rights.
This Association in the prevailing excitement was signed
by thousands of all classes throughout the kingdom, and in
my opinion forms, within its own limits, a Directory of the
population of England, second only to the records of the
Hearth Tax, and deserving of a place among printed records.
As there is no golden rule, known to me, for deciphering
masses of original signatures, should some of these 17th
century signatures have proved themselves too enigmatic for
my ingenuity, the assurance of considerable time spent on
them will, I hope, be allowed to me as a good defence.
No. 1 Devizls.
To the King's Most Excellent .Majestic.
The humble Addrcsse arid association of the Mayor, Recorder,
Majestrates, Common Councel!, and Free Burgesses oi the Burroiifih • 1
Dev zes, in the County of Wills, Together with oilier the Inhabitants
of the said Burrough.
Association Oath Rolls for Wiltshire, 199
Dread Soveraigne,
We, your Majesties most loyal and dutifull Subjects, humbly crave"
leave to congratulate your Majesties great and happy deliverance horn
the horrid, detestable, and cursed conspiracy and contrivance of Bloody
Miscreants to Assassinate your Majesties Royall person, which is soe
deare to your Majesties Kingdomes, and whose preservacon hath soe
generall an Influence on the peace and happinesse of all Europe. Wee
doe thankfully acknowledge the great and signal) providence of God in
it, and at the same time declare our detestacon and Abhorrence of soe
villanous and barbarous a designe. And wee doe humbly, sincerely,
and solemnly professe and declare that your Majestie is our rightfull
and lawful king. And wee doe fas in duty and Religion bound) promise
and engage our lives and fortunes, and all that is deare to us, in defense
of your Majesties sacred person and Government against the late King
James and all his adherents. And in case your Majestie shall come to
any violent and untimely death (which God forbid) Wee doe hereby
freely and unanimously unite and associate ourselves to revenge the
same to the utmost of our abillityes on your Majesties Euemycs, and
theire adherents, and to support and defend the Crovvne according
to an Act made in the first yeare of the happy Reigne of your glorious
Majestie, and the late Oueene Mary, your Royall consort of Blessed
memory, intituled an Act declareing the rights and libertyes of the
subjects, and settleing the succession of the Crowne :
Tho. Webb (Recorder) Joseph Webb
Phillip Cadby
Ambrose Zely
John Cooke
Isaack Grook
James Clarke
Francis Bayly
John Phillips
John Kirk
Richard Moyes
Gabriel Butcher, junr.
Edward Prise
Will. Hawkins
Edward Shinner
Francis Fellowcs
Hen. Hayes
James Hendin
Rich. White
Samucll Moxham
Robert Harvest
John Lidarde
Giles Eden
John Gamble
Thomas Webb
Richard Paradise
Jonas Hill
John Smith, senr.
Henry Parker
Adam Watts
James Phillips
William Poolle
Will. Biddle
John Poddy
Thomas Sayler
William Overton
Thomas Woodman
Benjamin Hurkings
Henery Para dice
William Masscy
Roger Shaul
John Powell, senr.
Edward Coleman
John Smith
John Clarcke
Peter Clarcke
Will. Adlam
Robert Paine
Tho. Wyatt
John Cleeve
Petter Slade
Edward Slooper
Richd. Whally
John Eustis
Ayliffe Kaynes
Jonathan Freeme
John Freeme
James Davis
James Davis, junr.
Thomas Edwards
Thomas Slade
Henry Elliott
John Worsdell
Abraham King
Edward Boman
Thomas Beale
Joseph Gallington
William Cadby
Thomas Harris
200 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Robert Brittan
John Hunt
Alexander Aslnvin
Wm. Sayer
John Filkes
John Bell
Tho. Bayly
Wm. Emberton
Jaco. Laurence
John White
Robert Reeks
Thomas Sloper
Richard Jeffries
John Hancock
John Ford
James Graham
John Hill, junr.
John Powell, jun.
Tho. Worsdell
John Figgins
Edward Erwood
Tho. Overton
John Overton
Harrison Fowler
Joseph Stevens
John Jordan
Will. Bruges
Richard Read
Ben. Stephens
Thomas Walden
Rogr. Dorchester
Benjamin Burrowe
Tho. Clarke
Nicholas Smith
Richard Pillis
Richard Swaubrough
Roger Olivers
William Bell
John Watts
Edmund Browne
John Escrett
Franc Reade
Daniel Cuttinge
Wm. God by
Thomas Smith
Wm. Powell
John Hollis
John Gough
Thomas Wilde
Samvell Powell
Joell Swetingham
Jacob Mi nerd
William Sartain
John Forman
John Small
John Sainsbury, jun.
Will. Filkes
James Filkes
Richard Mathews
Rich. Greenland
Robert Purchis
John Dallinor
Philip Butcher
Charles Simpkins
Rich. Anstie
Ambros Saintsbury,
junr.
Mathew Gent
George Heatt
Henery Jarman
John Sayer
Thomas Adlam
John Tane
Jeremiah Wi . . . . m
Ambrose Saintsbury,
senr.
Henry Flower
Jon Allen, senr.
Rich. Gefford
Gabriell Butcher
Rich. Smith
Olevcr Edwards
Rich. Vince
Francis Sadleir
John Wyatt
Jon Locke
Charles Flower
Robert Wattoil
John Allen, junr.
Anthony West
Thomas Brewer
Edward Erwood
Stephen Haskins
John Hammond
Francis Paradice, junr.
John Sloper
Phi. Phillips
James Lewes
John Jeninges
Christopher Pullen
William Williams
John Collins
Richard Books
Joseph Usher
Robert Stickler
Cristop. Richards
Will. Erwood
James Parker
Thomas Rose
John Child (Mayor)
E. Ernie
Fran Child
Rob. Nicholas
Robert Townsend
(Rector)
Rich. Watton
Francis Paradice, senr.
John Rogers
Mathew Figgens
Grave Morris
Willm. Paradice
Ben Streete
James Sutton
Richard Hilier
Edward Hope
Nic. Forsith
John Hill
Ric. Hope
Stephen Hilman
Rich. White, jun.
Edw. Watton
John Fry
John Saintsbury, senr.
Edward Want
John Grant
John Thomas
Ralph Goode
James Webb, junr.
Records of Wiltshire Parishes.
201
Henery Smitli James Hillman
Phillip Glass
William JefTryes
L. J. Acton Pile.
(To be continued.)
RECORDS OF WILTSHIRE PARISHES.
ERCHFONT WITH STERT.
(Concluded from p. 167J
New College Register of Evidences, p. 85 [and Patent Roll
3 Edward III, pt. r, 3 5].
a.d. 1328. — The King by Letters Patent grants the reversion
of the Manor of Hegtredebury with the parcels of Colerne and
Stoerte, with the appurtenances, co. Wilts, after the death of
Margaret de Badelesmcre, to Henry, Bishop of Lincoln, and his
heirs. Tested by the King at Westminster, 22 Ecbruar}',
3 Edward III. By writ of privy seal.
Ibid, [and Patent Roll 3 Edward III, pt. 1, m. 21.]
The King grants to Henry de Burghersh, Bishop of
Lincoln, to make up for the losses he sustained while his
temporalities were in the hands of the King's father, Edward,
for certain causes, and for the expense he was put to on the
King's account, at Stanhope, after he had taken the govern-
ment, the reversion of the Manor of Hegtredebury and all its
lands and tenements, with the appurtenances in Colerne and
Stoerte, co. Wilts, held by Margaret de Badelsmere for life,
the said reversion belonging to the King and his heirs,
together with all knight's fees, advowsons, fairs, markets,
chaces, etc , and all liberties belonging for the accustomed
service. Tested by the King at Wallingford, 15 April,
3 Edward III. By writ of privy seal.
Thomas Sayer
Robert Glass
Edward Pierce
202
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Ibid., p. 86.
Patent by the same ratifying the above. Tested at New-
Castle on Tyne, iS June, 8 Edward III. By writ of privy
seal.
Patent Roll. 4 Edward III, pi. 1, 2.
a.d. 1330. — Exemplification at the request of Margaret,
late the wife of Bartholomew de Badclcsmcre, and of Giles dc
Badclesmere, Bartholomew's heirs, of Letters Patent 5 Edward
II, 15 July, granting the estate in Kent and elsewhere in
exchange for the manors of Heghtredebury, Colerne and
Steurt [tit supra]. Tested by the King at Lincoln, 25 August.
Close Roll. 7 Edward III, pi. 2, ;;/. 13. [Calendar 1333-37.
a.d. 1333. — To the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer.
Order to cause the exaction which they made on Margaret, late
wife of Bartholomew' de Badelsmere, for the issues of the
manors of Sturt, Heghtredebury and Colerne, and of property
in Orchcston and Knouk, co. Wilts, and in co. Bucks and
Kent, for which answer has not been made to the King or his
father, to be superseded, and to cause Margaret to be discharged
and acquitted at the Exchequer, releasing her without delay
from any distraint made for that reason; as the late Kim
14 December, in the 20th year of his reign, granted to Mi
the custody of the said manors and lands, to hold during plea-
sure so that she should answer to the said King for the issues
thereof at the Exchequer: and in the parliament at West-
minster, in the first year of the King's reign, it was agreed
that all those w ho w ere of the quarrel of Thomas, late Earl of
Lancaster, for prosecuting Hugh le Despenser the elder and
Hugh le Despenser the younger, should have their lands
again, and also ladies and widows should have their hereditary
lands, joint acquisitions, and dowers, which had been taken into
the King's hand by reason of the said quarrel, together with the
issues thereof, for which answer had not been made to the
late King, because the said quarrel was adjudged to be just,
Records of Wiltshire Parishes. . 203
and the judgments given against those who had been of the
quarrel were entirely annulled, and Margaret held the said
manors and lands jointly with Bartholomew at his death, as is
found by the inquisitions taken thereupon, and the said manors
and lands were taken into the late King's hand by reason of
the said quarrel, nevertheless the treasurer and barons intend
to charge Margaret both with the issues of the said manors
and lands from the time of the said agreement, and with other
issues of the same for which answer was not made to the late
king, and to cause her to be distrained therefore, as the king-
has learned from her plaint, whereupon she has besought the
King to provide a remedy. Dated at Hereford, 22 October.
Patent Roll. S Edward III, pi. 2, ;;/. 6.
a.d. 1334. — Licence for Henry dc Burgerssh, Bishop of
Lincoln, to enfeoff Robert de Stanford and Ralph de Brok
of the manors of I Icghtredebury, Colerne, and Stoerte, co.
Wilts, said to be held in chief and for them to regrant them to
him for life, with remainder to Bartholomew de Burgerssh in
fee. By fine of 1005. made before the Council. Tested by
the King at Roxburgh, 22nd December.
Original Roll. 8 Edward I J I, r. 38.
Henr}' de Burgherssh, Bishop of Lincoln, makes a line
for 100s. for licence to enfeoff Robert de Stanford and Richard
de Broke of the manors of I Icghtredebury, and Colern, and
Stert, with the appurtenances in co. Wilts, to hold to Robert
and Ralph under a certain form.
Felt of Finks, Wilts. File 43.
AD- 1 335 — Fine made at York in the octave of St. John
Baptist, 9 Edward III. Between Henry de Burgherssh, Bishop
of Lincoln, plaintiff, and Robert dc Stanford and Ralph de Brok,
deforciants, of the manor of I Icghtredebury, Colerne, and
Stoerte with the appurtenances. The right of Robert and
Ralph acknowledged, who regrant the said manors and appur-
tenances to the Bishop for life, with remainder to Bartholomew
204
Will shire Notes and Queries.
de Burgherssh and his heirs, to hold of the King and his heirs
by the service belonging. "And this concord was made bv
the precept of the lord King himself."
Patent Roll. ii Edward III, pt. 3, /;/. 14.
a.d. 1337. — Exemplification at the request of Giles de
Badelesmere, son and heir of Bartholomew de Badelesmere,
of a charter of 9 Edward II, dated 12 August, granting to the
said Bartholomew free warren in his demesne lands of Chile-
ham, etc., co. Kent, and Castelcumbe, Colcrne, Heghtredebury,
Sterte, and Herdercote, co. Wilts. Tested by the King at
Thame, 20 November.
Inquisitions tost Mortem. 15 Edivard III (15/ nos.)t no. 39.
P.M. Henry de Burglicrsh, BisJiop o f Lincoln.
a.d. 1340. — Inquest taken at Heghtredebury, 29 December,
14 Edward III. Henry de Burghersh, Bishop of Lincoln, held
no lands, etc., in Wilts in his demesne as of fee. But he gave
the manors of Heghtredebury, Colerne, and Sterte with appur-
tenances to Robert de Brok. and Ralph de Staunford,1 clerks,
who by fine granted the same to said Henry for life, with
remainder to his brother Bartholomew de Burghersh. [Extents
of the manors of Heghtredebury and Colerne.j And there i>
in the manor of Sterte a capital messuage worth nothing
beyond deductions ; and there is there a garden worth yearly in
herbage There is in demesne 1&0 acres of arable
land worth yearly 255. at id. the acre; 50 acres of meadow
worth ; a certain pasture worth yearly 135. .\d. ; 10
acres of wood whose underwood is worth every . . . . ; there
is there of assized rents as well of free men as of villeins, 305.
payable at Pentecost and Michaelmas in equal portions. And
60s. ; the pleas and perquisites of court arc-
worth yearly 6s. Sd. The reversion of the said manors belong
to Bartholomew de Burghersh, brother of said Bishop.
1 Christian name? reversed, vide Feet of Fines above.
Records of Wiltshire Parishes.
205
Charter Roll. 16 Edward III, no. 10.
a.d. 1342.- — Grant to Bartholomew cle Burghersh and his
heirs of free warren forever in his lands in co. Lincoln, Bucks,
Essex, Kent, and Somerset, and in Heghtredbury, Sturt, and
Colerne, in Wilts. Westminster, 15 May.
Patent Roll. 17 Edward III, pi. 2, 31 and 28.
a.d. 1343. — Licence for Bartholomew de Burghersh, the
elder, to enfeoff" Master John de Thoreslry and Ralph de Brok,
clerks, of the manors of Great Heghtredebury, Sterte, and
Colerne. [As in Feet ot Fines, Wilts, File 45, below quoted.]
Chichester, July 20.
Feet of Fines, Wilts. File 45.
a.d. 1 34 3. — Fine at Westminster in the Octave of St.
Michael, 17 Edward III, between Bartholomew de Burgherssh,
senior, plaintiff, and Master John de Thoresb}' and Ralph de
Brok, clerks, deforciants, of the manors of Combe [?],
Heghtredbury, Sterte, and Colerne, and of the Hundred of
Great Heghtredbury, with the appurtenances, and of the
advowson of the church of Colerne. Right of John and
Ralph, who regrant the same to Bartholomew for life, with
remainder to Bartholomew, son of Bartholomew de Burghersh
the elder, and his heirs male; failing his issue male to Henry
de Burgherssh, brother of the said Bartholomew the son, and
his heirs male ; and failing his issue male to Thomas, brother
of the same Henry, and his heirs male, and failing his issue to
the right heirs of Bartholomew de Burghersh the elder. By
precept of the King.
Inquisition post Mortem. 29 Edward III, no. 44 (is/ nos).
a.d. 1355. — Inquest at Devizes, Saturday before Nativity
of Blessed Virgin Mary, 29 Edward III. Bartholomew de
Burghersh, senior, held the manor of Westcourt in Heghtrede-
bury with the Hundred of Heghtredebury and the manor of
Colerne. He held of Philippa, Queen of England, as of the
Castle of Devizes, the manor of Steort by the service either of
paying yearly 205., by the hands of the Constable of the Castle,
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Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
or of warding a tower in the said Castle during war. And the
manor is worth in all its issues ^15. He died the Monday
after St. Peter in chains last. Bartholomew de Burghersh,
junior, his son, is his nearer heir, aged 30 years.
Inquisition post Mortem. 43 Edward HI, pt. \, no. 14.
Post Mortem Bartholomew de Burghersh, kt.
a.d. 1369. — Inquest at New Sarum, 24 April, 43 Edward III.
Bartholomew de Burghersh, knight, held no lands, etc., in
Wilts, in his demesne as of fee, but was enfeoffed with
Margaret his wife, as yet surviving, of the manors of Heghtred-
bury, Stert, and Colerne, of a certain gift which the same
Bartholomew, with the royal licence, made of the said manors
to Sir Walter Pavely, John of Gildesburgh, Thomas [ — ]ang-
ford and William of Windsor, clerk, who afterwards granted
the said manors to Bartholomew and Margaret his wife, to
hold to them and the heirs of Bartholomew for ever. The
manors are held of the King in chief by knight service. The
manor of Stert is worth yearly in all its issues 20 marks.
Bartholomew de Burghersh died 5 April last. Elizabeth his
daughter, aged 24 years, wife of Edward le Despcnser, is his
nearer heir.
Patent Roll. 7 Riehard II, pt. 1, 43.
a.d. 13S3. — Exemplification at the request of Thomas de
Hungerford, kt., tenant of the manor of I leghtrcdebury, co.
Wilts, of the following: —
1. Inquest post mortem of Sir Walter de Dunstan-
ville. [Inquisitions post mortem, 54 Henry III, no. 10.]
2. A writ, dated Westminster, 1 1 Eeb., 54 Henry III,
ordering John lc Moyne, cschaetor this side Trent, to
deliver seisin of the said Walter's lands and tenements to
Robert de Montfort and Parnell his wife, daughter of
said Walter.
3. Licence to William de Montfort to grant reversion
of said manor, on death of John de la Mare, of Bradwell,
Records of Wiltshire Parishes.
207
tenant by courtesy, to Bartholomew de Badlesmere in fee.
[Patent Roll 2 Edward II, pt. 2, m. 2.]
4. Charter confiscating the said manor, etc., to Hugh
le Despenser. [Charter Roll 15 Edward II, no. u.J
5. Grant in fee to Henry, Bishop of Lincoln, the
reversion of the said manor, with the parcels of Colerne
and Stoerte, on the death of Margaret de Badelesmere.
[Patent 3 Edward III, pt. 1, m. 35.] Dated at West-
minster, 7 July.
New College Register, p. 93.
a.d. 1387.— Petition from William of Wykeham, Bishop
of Winchester, that, whereas Elizabeth, daughter and heiress
of Bartholomew de Burghersshe, who was wife of Edward le
Despenser, Lord of Glammorgan and Morgannogh, has granted
by fine levied before the Justices of the Common Bench the
reversion of the manors of Stoerte and Colerne, with their
appurtenances, and the advowson of the church of Colerne,
held by William Burcestre, knight, and Margaret his wife
for life, to the said Bishop, Master John of Wykeham, clerk,
Master John Campeden, clerk, Robert Cherlton, and Thomas
le Warenner, of Winchester, and to the heirs of the said
Robert for ever, and as the said manors are held in chief of
the King, the King will pardon their trespass thus done, and
grant that the said Robert, releasing all his right in the same,
the said Bishop, Masters John of Wykeham, and John
Campden, and Thomas le Warenner, may assign the same
reversion after the death of William and Margaret to the
Warden and scholars of the College called St. Mary College,
of Winchester, in Oxcnford, to hold to them and their
successors of the King in pure and perpetual alms.
Ibid., p. 94. [And Patent Roll 1 1 Richard II, pt. 1, 9.]
a. p. 13S7. — Letters Patent of Richard II, licensing Eliza-
beth, widow of Edward le Despenser, Lord of Glammorgan,
etc, to grant the reversion of the manors of Sterte, etc. [as
above], to William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester,
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Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Master John ofWykeham, and the others mentioned- above,
and that the latter, having received the attornment of William
Burcestre and Margaret his wife, may grant that the same may
remain to the Warden and Scholars of St. Mary's College, of
Winchester, Oxford, to hold to them and their successors as
above. Tested by the King at Westminster, 22 November,
11 Richard II.
[Enrolled in the King's Bench, Mich., 11 Richard II, r.
573, and the K.R. Memoranda Roll, Hilary, 3 Henry IV.]
Ibid., p. 95.
Acknowledgment of Elizabeth lc Despenser, late wife of
Edward le Despenser, Lord of Glamorgan and Morgannow,
that she has received for the reversion of the manors of
Sterte and Colerne, with all their rights and appurtenances,
700 marks from William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester,
by the hands of Master John dc Campden, his clerk. Dated,
9 November, 11 Richard II.
Ibid., p. 86. [Also Patent Roll, 1 1 Richard II, pt 2, m. 30.]
Patent 11 Richard II, confirming, at the request of
William de Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester, patents 22 Feb.,
15 April, 3 Edward III, and iS June, 8 Edward III, and patent
22 December, 8 Edward III {vide above, Pat. S Edward 111,
pt. 2, m. 6). Tested by the King at Westminster, 1 March.
E. M. Thompson.
THE CHRYSOM BOOK OF ST. THOMAS, NEW SARUM.
(Continued from p. wo.)
Frome the berthe of Criste unto the annancion of our
Ladye, 1581.
Edmonde Molinexes wife churched the 3 of Jennary 1581, hir
cresome, yi. ; Thomas Sheperdes wife churched the 7 of Jennary, hir
cresome, 6d., her ofering, \d. \ Christopher Tamson unto Margeat I'erre
the viii daye of Jennary, for her offring, \\\d. ; Peter Roberts wyle
The Chrysom Book of St. Thomas, Xcw Swum. 209
churched the yiii daye of Jennary, for her chrisom, viidf. ; Rycharde
Conewayes vvyfe churched the x daye of Jennary, for her chrisom, \\\\d.,
her offering, id. 6b.; John Joanes wife churched the xi clay of Jennary,
her chrisom, \\lld., and her offring, \d. ; Georg Tucker wyfe churched the
xv daye of Jennary, for her chrisom, \\\\d.% her offring, Id.; John Malpase
to Mary Gage, there ofring, \ld.\ Thomas Pinnanes wyfe church the
xxiith daye of Jennary, her chrisom, xlld., her ofring, x\d. ob. ; John
Peaselings wyfe churched the xxii daye of Jennary, her crisom, Hid.,
her ofring, id. oh, qr. ; John Fauceners wyfe churched the xxv daye of
Jennary, her crisom, vie/., her ofring, I'ud. ob. qr. ; Roger Lovell maryed
the xxvii daye of Jennary, his ofring, io},d. ; Wyllyam Pride, the yonger,
the xxix day of Jennary, his ofring, 14c/. ob. ; John Alsheer the xxix daye
of Jennary, his offringe, lid. ; Thomas Daryes wyfe churched the
xxix daye of Jennary, a crisom and her ofring, xd. ob. ; Mighell Gracians
wyfe churched the xxxith daye of Jennary, her crisom, vie/., her ofring,
i\d. qr. ; James Galley his wife the viii daye of February, her crisom,
vie/., her offring, iii^. (jr. ; Thomas Barker his wife churched the ix daye
of February, her crisom. viiie/., her ofering, iiiie/. ; John Flude wyfe
churched the vii daye of February, her crisom, nothing, her ofring, ob.
[the childc is dead] ; John Sherwill the xii daye ol February, his ofring,
'lis.; Gieles Freeman the xviii daye of February, his ofring, Us. vie/.;
Rychard Praters wyfe churched the 18 day of February, her chrisom,
vie/., her ofring. x'xd. ob. qa.; John Stonex wyfe churched ye xxii day of
February, her crisom, iiiietf., her offring, ob. qa.; Water Pipins wyfe
cliurched the xxii day of February, her crisom, xd., her offring. he/, ob. ;
Thomas Roses wyfe. her offring, ob. qa. [the child is dead]; Xycholes
Knights wyfe the xvii daye of March, her chrisom, vie/., and her offring,
nd. ob. qa. ; Mr. Thomas Eyres wyfe the xix daye of March, her chrisom,
x\d., and her offring, x'rid. ; Wyllyam Dies wyfe churched the xxiiii daye
of March, her offring, id.
Som is xixy. hie/.
Item for v ponnde of candells, xlld. ob.
Item for stamping of tokens, iiiie/.
R. for our ladyes quarttar by the hands of me. Symon Xeall, 19.?. ^d.
From the Anunsiacion of ()r Ladye unto the Feaste of
St. John Baptist, 1582.
Wyllyam Mayes wyfe the xxvi daye. of March, her chrisom, vie/.,
and her offring, Mid. ob. qr. ; Marks Fourlons wyfe churched the iv day
April!, the chrisom, x\d., and her offring, id. ; Xicholis Kimj»rs wyfe
churched the ix daye of April!, her chrisom, xld., her offring, i\d. qr. ;
Harry Markets wyfe churched the xiii daye of Aprill, her chrisom. Wild.,
her offring, xd. ; Mat hew Maylerds wyfe churched the xvi day of Aprill,
her chrisom. xld., Id.; Mr. John Penrydocks wyfe churched the xviii
day, her chrisom, xt/. : Wyllyam Clark the xxvth daye of Aprill, his
P
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ofring, \\d. ; George Clark the xxvi daye of Aprill. his ofring, \\d. •
Wyllyam Leggs wyfe churched the xxv day of Aprili, her chrisom, vi//.,
her offring, \\d.\ Wyllyam Joans the xxx daye of April!, und. ; Rychanl
Barens wyfe churched seconde daye of Maye, her ciirisom and her
offring, ud. ; James Ashes wyfe churched the iiii daye of Maye, her
chrisom, xid., her offring. YxuL ; Xicholes Tawbotes wyfe churched the
x daye of Maye, her chrisom, vid., her offring. vd.\ Mr. Bowres wyfe
churched the xi daye of Maye, a chrisom the offring, viid. ; Thomas
Gunns wyfe churched the xiii daye of Maye, her chrisom, xid., her
offring, id. ; Mr. Jackmans wyfe churched the xxi daye of Maye, her
chrisom, xu/., her offring, iid. ; Harry Curreys wyfe churclied the
xxi day of .May, her chrisom, v//., her offring, id. ob. ; Wyllyam Giffords
wyfe the xxiii daye of Maye. her chrisom, vie/., her offring, Hid. ; James
Mersam the xxiiii daye of Maye. his offring, iid.; Wyiliam Riches wyfe
churched the xxviii daye of Maye. her chrisom. iiii'?.. her offring. if/.;
John Huets wife churched the xxix daye of Maye, her chrisom, xid., her
offring, Hid. ; Rychard Wardes wife the second daye of June churched,
her chrisom, xd., her offring, \d. ; Steven Clements wyfe churched the
vi daye of June, her chrisom, vid., hei ofring. Vud. : Jorge Fnglishes wife
churched the 14 of June, her crisome, 6d., her offeringe, 4*/. ; Thomas
Koutchcs wife churched the 16 of June, her offeringe. ob. qr. [the child
is ded'J; Mr. Bondes wife churched the 1S of June, her crisome, Sd.
Sum, xWus. ixd.
Rs of Raffe the xxv day of June 15S2 for offryngs and wedyngs and
churchens be syde ii crcsomes. 143. gd.
'. From St. John Baptist unto the Feast of St. Michel]
thearkangell, 15S2.
The Mr. Taylers offring the vii daye of July, and the Jornemen
vi i it h day, iiij. iid. : Robert Whit unto LJrsela Norton, widdow, the
xii day of July, there offring, \xd.\ Hewe Mortimers wirTe churclied the
xiiii of July, her crisom, iiiif/.. her offringe, id. intot. ; John Edwnrdes
unto Margery Beet the xvof July, tliere offringe, xii??'-: Roberte Compton
unto Elizabeth Gills, the >ame daie, there offringe, xiid. ; Robert
Smithes wyle churched the xviii daye of July, and Wyllyam Akeryes
wyfe the sam time, for her chrisom and ther ofrings, vl'id. qr. ; Peter
Brown unto Mary Barnerd the xxtii daye of July, for there offrings.
\i\id. : Edward Cheevars wyfe churched the xxiii daye of July [the child
is ded); Robert Ashleyes wyfe churched the xxiii daye ol July, tor her
chrisom, xid., and bothe there offrings, iiii//. ob. ; Thomas Hunts wyfe
churched the xxiiii daye of July, her chrisom, v\Uf.. her offring, Hid.:
John Hurts wyfe churched the xxviii daye of July, for her chrisom. iiii//.,
id. for offring ; Robert Burt nhto Margaret Daw- the vi daye of August,
for there offring, xi//. ob. ; Wyllyam Corn ales wyfe churched the ix daye
of August, her chrisom, iiii//., her offring, id. ub.; John Mintrones wyfe
churched the xi daye of August, her chrisom, vi//., her "firing. i\d. ob. qr. ,
Genealogical Noles on the Hon Hon Family. 21 1
Roger Weyllcses vvyfe churched the xiii daye of August, a chrisonr,
[ ], for her offring, Wd. qr. ; John Emyetts [?] wyffe churched;
Willm. Vooles vviffe churched the xxix of August, a chrisom, 4^/., and
for her offering, id. ob. ; Thomas Satchfield unto Elizabeth Baynton, for
there offringe, \\\\d., the iii daye of September; Rycharde Dillahayes
vvyfe churched the iii daye of September, her chrisom and her offering,
ob. ; Rycharde Westes vvyfe churched the ii-ii daye of September, for
her chrisom, uud., and her oftYing, ob. ; Steven Subertone unto Alse
Smallom the v daye of September, for there offring. xxd. ob. qr. ; John
Clemens unto Susan Maynerd the x daye of September, for thcr offring,
x'nd. ob. ; Rychard Gauntlents vvyfe churched the xii daye of September,
for her chrisom, xd., for her offring, viid. ob. ; Rychard Somcrs wyfe
churched the viii daye of September, her chrisom, vld , her offring, id. ob.;
Wylliam Pile unto Collice Robertsone the xvi daye of September, for
there offring, x\d. ob. Sum is xix.?. vd.
Edmund R. Nevili..
(To be continued.)
GENEALOGICAL NOTES ON THE HOULTON FAMILY.
{Continued jroni p. 170.)
125 Hark. — Henry Gouldney, of Chippenham, co. Wilts, clothier.
Eldest son, Henry, all lands he purchased from Mr. Win, Bayliss called
Rawlings, in p. Langley Burre.ll. Exors. to advance son Henry ,£500 at
5 per cent. Wife Anne to have use of house that brother Gabriel
Goldney lived in. Son Henry, leasehold estate " in the forest " purchased
from bro.-in-lavv Mr. George Scott, and lease called "the ground behind
the. towne", purchased from Sir Edward Baynton. Son Gabriel, lease-
hold estate, purchased from Mr. Abjohn Stokes, in p. Langley Burrell,
/.ioo, etc., when 21. Wife Anne, £\oo, etc. Son John, leasehold called
Blackwell Hams, purchased from Rev. Dr. Wyatt, m Chippenham, and
property in Chippenham purchased from Sir Edward Hunger ford, etc.
Daughters Sarah and Anne. /350 each. Son Thomas and child soon to
be born, ,£350 each. Children of brother Edward Goldney, £60. Mr.
Rewswell, Mr. Seele, and Mr. Bourne. £20 to weavers now working
for him. Exors. to be brother Thomas Gouldney, bro.-in-law Joseph
Holton, cousin James Wallis, and cousin Edward Peirce. Residue to
wife: and children. Disputes in will to he decided by friends Mr.
Jonathan Dicke and Mr. Benjamin Flower.
Witnesses : — Willi. Baylisse, Elizabeth Baylisse, Thomas Gardiner,
senior.
Dated 25 July 16S4. Proved 31 Oct. 16S4, by the 4 Exors. named.
P 2
212
13 Gee.— Edward Mortimer, the elder, of Trowbridge, co. Wilt*,
gent. House he lives in to wife Katharine for her life, and then to son
John, and at his death to grandson Edward Mortimer1 (John's son).
Leasehold property in Trowbridge and Stndly to son Edward, afte:
wife's death. Farm called Week Farm, p. Norton St. Philip, Farley, or
Tellisford, co. Somerset, at wife's death; to son John, and at Ins death,
John's son, Edward, the latter paying ^i.coo to each of his sisters then
living. Katherine, Anne, and Jane Mortimer, 3 of the daughters of sen
John. Daughter Jane Watts. Elianor Mortimer, daughter of son
John. Daughter Amu- Shepherd and her 2 children. Friends Joseph
Houlton, the elder, Joseph Houlton, the younger, and Edward Grant,
the elder, all of Trowbridge, gents., to be Trustees and Overseers.
Wife to be sole Exor.
Dated 25 Feb. 1702-3. Proved 16 Jan. 1704-5. by Katherine
Mortimer, the relict.
214 SHALLER. — Joseph Houlton, of Trowbridge, co. Wilts, gent.
To son Joseph Houlton, a house, orchard and grounds "lying in pinch-
meed, now in the possession of Mr. Harman King, which I bought of
Mr. John peare, and lyeth in the parishes of Trowbridge and Stndly."
To 3 grandsons John and Robert Houlton (sons of son Joseph) and
Walter Marchant Bull (son of daughter Daves), ^200 each, when 21, "to
be paid by my grandson Nathaniel Houlton out of my estate at Telsett,
which I bought of Win. Wallis, Esquire.'' Daughter Walters and her
daughter Mary. Daughter Anne Parsons and her 8 children. To
daughter Elisabeth Houlton, farm at Mounton, bought from Mr. Walter
Sloper, and ,£1,200. ^500 to wife and fSo a year "out of estate at
Stowye or the grist mills". Mr. John Davison, of Trowbridge, Mr.
Andrew Gilford, ol Bristol, Mr. John Felks, of tin; Devizes. "^300 in
small legacies as 1 shall in writing direct my Executor.'' To son Robert,
"all my land and tenements not before given, which I bought of Mr.
John Peare in Trowbridge or Stndly," "as also my three leaseholds, one
for storeidge, one for the mills at Trowbridge, and one lor the parson-
age of Buckington." Son Robert to be sole Exor. Friends Mr. Edward
Davis, senr., and Mr. John Davison to he Trustees.
Dated 20 Oct. 1716.
Witnesses :— Richd. Cottle, Joseph Cottle, Sarah Dannell.
Codicil— Joseph Houlton, of Trowbridge, co. Wilts, clothier. "1
give to Mr. John Davison, my son Joseph Houlton, my son Robert
Houlton, my grandson Joseph Houlton, Mr. John Brouse, ol Bradford,
and Mr. Wm. Temple, of Trowbridge, clothier, ,£200 in trust lor the
better maintaining of the Baptist Ministers of tin; congregation
Bradford." To sister Mortimer, ,£io a year. Cousin Catharine Shep-
hard, £5. Benjamin Crab's children living at Tellisford Mill. '"Mr.
1 Edward Mortimer, of Trowbridge, Esq., High Sheriff of Wilts 17:;'i
Peculiars of the Dean and Chapter of Saturn. 2 13
Bendy, of ffroom, Baptist Minister. Mr. Beverstock, ot Southmorton,
Mr. Wigery, Mr. Robert Woodman, ot Grittleton, Baptist Minister."
Mr. John Davison and his 6 children. The widow Elliott, of Beckington.
/500 at 6 per cent., out of which .£15 a year to Baptist Minister ot
Trowbridge, "and the other nioyety for the raising young gifts for the
supply of Baptist Churches where there is need.''
Witnesses :— Elizth. Houlton, Sarah Dannell, Sarah Cater.
Proved 14 Oct. 1720, by Robert Houlton, son.
S6 Prick.— Joseph Houlton, senr., Esqre., of Grittleton. co. Wilts.
Brother Robeit Houlton, of Trowbridge, Esquire. Sons Joseph, John,
Nathaniel (who is married), and Robert Houlton. Brother Joseph
Davies, of Frome, co. Somerset, linen draper. Will of wife Priscilla
Houlton, deed. Sou John's 3 sons, Robert, John, and Nathaniel (all
under 21.1. Anne and Mary, daughters of son Joseph. Cousin Mary,
wife of Benjamin Cooke, of Frome. Cousin Anne Wiltshire, of
Foskett. Sons Joseph and Robert to be Exors.
Dated 5 Dec. 1729. Proved 5 March 1732-3.
P.C.C. Admo.v, 1739.
On nth April 1739, issued forth a Com'n to Joseph Houlton, Esq.,
the nephew (by the brother; of Robert Houlton, late of Trowbridge,
co. Wik;:, Esq., widower, deed., to administer the goods, etc., of said
deed., Eleanor Davis, widow, Mary Walters (wife of Henry Walters.
Esq.), Ann Parsons, widow, and Elizabeth Henwood (wife of Edward
Henwood) the only sisters and next of kin, first renouncing. Another
Admon. of goods unadministered passed in July 1753.
R. Boucher.
(To be continued.)
PECULIARS OF THE DEAN AND CHAPTER OF
SARUM.
(Continued from p. 179.)
In continuing- these Bonds, I feel more and more cer-
tain that not only most of the witnesses arc local but
that the seals are also local, particularly the armorial seals,
e.g., Here REGIS for a long time has a lion rani pant in a
harder of buckles. Lyme Rf.gis a chief and a bend indented ',
on it three roundels. Salisbury, a dove or bird, holding
a bough, and so on. I should like at the same time
2 14 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
to express my gratitude to Mr. A. R. Maiden, F.S.A.,-the
Diocesan Registrar, who has most kindly deciphered many of
the seals for me.
"To the right Worp" my good friend Mr. Doctor
Baylie, Deane of Salisbury, deliver these.
"I thought fit to make known unto, you that -there
is an agreement on a marriage to bee had (yf God so
please) betweene John Turbervill, of Woolbridge, in
Dorset, Esqr., and a daughter of myne, namelie, Joane
Strode. And because my dwelling house at Parnham,
being scytuate in the parish of Beamister, is wthin the
peculiar of yor Deanery of Salisbury, and because
likewise I am an oulde man and soo disabled by
infirmitie that I cannot gowe (noo, not in coach) soo far
as to my parish church, my desire to you is that you
will please to grant your lycence for the uniting of
those two wch are fitting in years and all other respects
as is knowen by the frinds of both sides; and that
likewise you will farther extend yor lycence to the
marrying of them in my house at Parnham, for I desire
to be present at it and to give them an oulde father's
blessinge. This gentleman, Air. Sprat (my kinsman),
being the preaching minister of my parish, can know-
ingly enforme you of all necessary circumstances, and
soo recommending my speciall love and service to my
good Lord Bishopp of Salisbury, not forgetting all due
respects to yor selfe, 1 rest, yours to demand,
"John Strode.
"Parnham, ye i 6th of September 1641."
"Lime Regis, November 2.|, 1640.
"Letter for Licence for Nicholas Whatcombe,
marchant beyond the .^eas, & Anastace Dare, sp. ;
B'dman, John Gcarc ;' 26 Nov. 1640."
1 Is this the father described in Alumni Oxon., as minister of the word
in Dorset, the father of Jonathan, vicar of Chippenham? is lie also the
Peculiars of the Dean and Chapter of Saruni. 215
Spratt, Willm., of Haitsbury, Wilts, husb., & Margarett
Curtis, of the same; B'dmen, Tho. Spratt, of Bavcrstock,
and Benjamin Turner, of Din ton, blacksmith ; 4 May 1641 ;
Wit., Grac Franklin, clericus, John Curtis, John Davis.
Lambert, Walter, of Sherborne, Dorset, parchment maker,
& Joane Jeanes, of the same, wid. ; B'dman, George Antrani,
of Sarum, parchment maker; 6 Oct. Seal : In a circle 7. .S.
and a tree between.
Dawe, Valentine, of Stock wood, co. Dorset, 23, yeo., &
Hester Dawe, of Yatmister, sp., 19, d. of Alice Dawe, of
the same, wid. ; B'dman, Robert Williams, of the same,
yeo. ; 6 Oct.
Spine}', John, of Charmister, co. Dorset, husb., & Eleoner
Graunt, of the same ; B'dmen, Walter Dearing, of the same,
clothier, and Thomas Perham, of the same, blacksmith ;
15 Sept.; To Rich.. Dyke, Curate of Charmister; Wit.,
Edwd. Meech, John Chippe.
Appleford, Thomas, of Conicke, in Ramsbury, yeo., &
Johanna West, of St. Mary's, Marlborough, sp. ; B'dman,
John Browne, of St. Mary's, Marlborough, yeoman ; Wit.,
Thos. Browne, John Wylde, clericus de Ramsbury ; 1 Oct.
"Lime Regis, July 12, 1641.
"Good Mr. Johnson. Hoping that ere this you
know and can advertise me when Mr. Deane's visita-
tion here wilbe and whether Mr. Deane himself or who
in his steede cometh Surrog, and howc many yr com-
panie wilbe ; doe befeecli you next weeke at the returne
of this Excetcr carriage that bringeth you these, so let
me know so much certaintie thereof as you can that I
may provide acordingly, and you shall find as ever
heretofore the best entertainment we can give you.
"I hope you have not forgotten our kinswoman,
Headmaster of Sherborne School KJOl-ii, afterwards Vicar of Lyme Regis,
and Rector of Symond>bury ? lie was recommended to the school by Sir
Walter Kaleigh, and Secretary C ecil. Stun. ,v Dors. X. Q„ v,202.— [Ed.]
2i 6 \Villsliirt Notes a>id Queries.
Susan Guppic, who brought up in our house hath often
waited on you here. She now craveth performance of
a promise well shee saith you have often made her,
viz., that whensoever God should send her an husband
you would freely give here a license. Shee is novve, with
or good liking, contracted to one Mr. Thomas Smith, a
Mr of Arts, and Preacher of God's Word at Axemouth,
in Devon, and they desire to be married here in o*
church of Lime Regis. Shee prayeth you that as you
will acquitt yourself to be a man of your word that so
you enclose the license in yr lettre to me next week,
and at yr next comine will acknowledge yr faithful
favour, and shewc herselfe verie thankfull to you
therefore. Bene vale in Chro. \'ere tuus,
"Jo. Geare."
Smarte, John, of Galton, co. Dorset, & Jone Churchill, of
Holnest ; B'dmen, Nicholas Covett, of Dorchester, Dorset,
vintner, Renaldo Knapton, of Fordington, gent., and John
Munden, of Charm ister, yeo. ; 4 Nov. 1641.
Lambe, Willm,, of Sherborne, Dorset, weaver, & Margarett
Hebditch. of the same ; B'dmen, Robert Aden, of Folk,
Dorset, husb. ; 5 Nov. 1641 ; Wit., Wm. Dancock, Walter
Johnson.
Payne, George, of Weston Banfieid, Somerset, veo., &
Francis Miller, of Thomford, Dorset ; B'dman, Joseph
Miller, of Sherborne, yeo. ; 1 5 Nov. 1641.
Hooper, Arthur, of Sherborne, Dorset, clothweaver, &
Jane Farrant, of the same; B'dmen, Oliver Muston and
Robert Hoddinot, of the same, yeoman ; 27 Oct. 1641 ;
Wit., Robert Alford, Josias Farrant.
Bush, Wm., wid., husb., & Elizabeth Daish, wid. ;
B'dman, Wm. Mortimer, Vicai ofCalne; 2 Nov. 1040.
Rosear, Willm., of Turners Puddle, Dorset, husb., 23, &
Dorothy Linnington, of the same, 17; B'dman, Henry
Phelpes, of the same ; 10 Dec. 1641.
Peculiars of the Dean and Chapter of Sarunl. 217
Forward, Thomas, of Mere, Wilts, linnen weaver, &
Mary Welch, of the same, sp. ; B'dinan, Henry Welch, of
the same, lynnen weaver; 25 Dec. 1641.
Blake, John, of Up wood ford, Wilts, husb., & Elizabeth
Symons, of Netton, in Great Durnford ; B'dmen, Edward
Symoiis, of Broadchalk, husb., Robert Whitchornc, of
Woodford; 5 Jan. 1641-2.
Arnold, William, of Overcompton, Dorset, yeo., &
Margarett Abbington, wid., of the same; B'dman, Richard
Fryer, of Sarum, yeo.- j 3 Dec. 1641.
Harroll, John, of 11am, Wilts, Agnes, d. of John
Hawkins, als. Lightfoote, of We.xcombc, in Bedwyn Magna;
4 Feb. 1641 ; B'dman, Nicholas Merivall, of Sarum, clothier.
Greenleafe, John, of Becre Regis, Dorset, husb., &
Margery French, of the same ; B'dman, John Benison, of
the same, weaver; 17 Feb. 1641.
Williams, William, of Gt. Durnford, Wilts, yeo., 40, &
Martha Jarvis, of Wivelsford, sp., 27; B'dman, Thomas
Jarvis, of the same, yeo. ; 22 Feb. 1641.
Rich, Thomas, of Nethercompton, Dorset, yeo., & Anne
Beaton, of the same, sp. ; B'dman, Thomas Pitman, of the
same, yeo. ; 11 Mar. 1641.
Gould, Roger, yeo., & Anne Clifford, sp., both of Rems-
bury ; B'dmen, Sampson Cotton, of the same, gent., and
John King, of Sarum, taylor ; 23 Mar. 1641. Seal : 7. H.
in circle.
Penny, Henry, of Sherborne, Dorset, freemason, <$: Joane
Rideout, sp., of the same ; B'dman, Joseph Foster, of the
same, yeo. ; 23 Mar. 1641.
Hewlett, Lewis, of Knookc, W'ilts, yeo., & Flioner
Larcombe, of the same, wid. ; B'dman, John Dann, of
Codford Mary, Wilts, yeo. ; 31 Mar. 1642.
44 Mr. Johnson, I would in treat you to doe soe much
as send mee by this bearer a licence ; it is for Mr. John
Fyler, Junr., Curate of Lyford (Lyford St. Mar}*,
Berks), & Margaret Foster, wid., both of Sherborne,
2lS
to be maryed ether at Sherb. or Oborne or Cartletowne.
You may rest satisfyed there is noc legall impediment
in any kind whatsoever. Yf you dout of it I doe
hereby pass my word in a ^100 to make it good and
secure you wth. He knowes mee well whome I have
intreated to satisfy you, and 1 tfainke you knowe mee
well enough ; wee were men* together yt last visitation
at Sherborne. I am in great hast and have only time
to tell you that I shall rest, Your very low friend,
"Wm. Sansom, Churchwarden.''
Snelgar, Marke, of Knookc, Wilts, & Edith Hewlett, of
the same; B'dman, Lewis Hewlett, of the same; 25 Apr.
1642.
Ribbie, Cutbert, the younger, of Sherborne, 28, s. of
Cuthbert Ribbie, of the same, sherman, & Amie Fluke, 19,
of Wotton, Dorset, d. of [ ■] Fluke, of Fiffield Magdalin,
Dorset, miller ; Wit., John Ribbie, bro. of Cuthbert ;
16 June 1642 ; Ai.
Gillam, John, miller, & Ursula Arnold, both of Bishop-
ston ; B'dmcn, John Haysey, of Remsbury, husb., and
Robert Titcombe, of Sarum, husb.; 7 July 1642.
Adams, John, yeo., & Matheus Home, of Bedwyn Magna ;
B'dmen, Thomas Home, of the same, shoemaker, and
Leonard Jordaine, of Sarum, grocer; 18 Aug. 1042.
Lambert, Willm., of Knooke, Wilts, husb., & Mary
Wilkins, of the same; B'dmcn, Francis Ilevill, of the same,
husb., and Thomas Kinge, of Pel ton, Somerset, husb. ;
18 Aug. 1642. W. L. seals with J. G. in a long oval.
Deane,1 Peter, of Bristoll, mercer, & Alary Day ; B'dman,
Edward Gerrish, of Bristoll, grocer; 21 Oct. 1642.
Marsh, Henry, of Hornisham, Wilts, husb., lV* J one
Alexander, of the same, sp. ; B'dman, Thomas Hayter, of
Muncton Dcverill, taylor ; 10 Aug. 1042.
1 Thomas Deanc, of Bristol, mercer, whose daughter married Thomas
.Sslfe (IF. -V. Q., iv, 351), mentions in his Will 1639, "my son Peter
Dciine." MiscelL Gen. ct Her., 2nd Ser., v, 380.— [Eu.]
Peculiars of the Dean and Chapter of Sanaa. 219
Reynolds, Richard, of Everleigh, Wilts, gent., 27, & Mary
Clements, of Heytesbury, sp., 20 ; B'dinan, Willm. Kayes,
of Sarum, gent. ; 3 Apr. 1646.
Mundy, Willm., of Durnford Magna, yeo.. 6c Anne Hay-
ward, of the same ; B'dman, Willm. Hayward, of the same,
yeo. ; 29 Nov. 1642.
Shepherd, Charles, of Gillingham, Dorset, husb., & Eliz.
Humfry, wid., of Mere, Wilts; B'dman, Francis Holloway,
of Mere ; 30 Dec. 1642.
Baleh, Mr. Robert, of Sherborne, Dorset, *Sc Francis
Gardyner, of the same ; B'dmen, Phillip Scymor, of Sarum,
inholder, Ashley Binges, of St Gyles, Upwimborne, Dorset,
husb. ; 24 Mar. 1642.
Smith, Valentine, inholder. & Joane Jeanes, both of Sher-
borne; B'dmen, Willm. Vonge, ofSarum, wollendraper, and
Robert Dummer, of Sherborne, weaver; 19 Aug. 1043.
Awse, Robert, of Sherborne. Dorset, parchment maker, &
Elizabeth Lockett, of the same ; B'dman, Richard Chaunt,
of the same, blacksmith. 2; Aug. 1643.
Gilmore, Edward, of Remsbury, Wilts, gen., & Agatha
Newman, of Marten in Great Bedwyn ; B'dman, Robert
Newman, of Church Lamborne, Berk's; 17 Nov. 1043.
Saintbarbe, Edward, of Whiteparish, Wilts, armiger, &
Mary Chiver, of Calne; B'dman, John Poncherdon, of
Whiteparish, gen. Seals : Arms of St. Barbc ; 2S May
1644.
Bruncker, Willm., of Earlstoke, Wilts, gent., & Katherinc
Moore, of Heytesbury, sp ; B'dmen, Giles Sadler, of Sarum,
gen., and Thomas Hauling, of the same, gen.; 24 Sept.
1644.
Burleigh, John, of Durnford Magna, Wilts, clericus, tS:
Mary Thomas, of t he same ; B'dman, Richard Thomas, of
the same, yeoman ; 3 Oct. 1^44.
Harford, William, of Bi.-hopston, yeo., & Alee Smith, of
Great Durnford ; B'dman, Thomas Miles of Stratford-sub-
vet-castro, yeo. ; 12 July 1045.
220
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Benger, Henry, of Woodford, Wilts, yeo., & Jane Sher-
gall, of the same ; B'dman, Willni. Joyce, of Sarum, gen. ;
5 Feb. 1645.
I End of Roll 2.]
Bundle 2, 1673 to 1682.
[Roll j, 167.3 1° 16761 consists of printed forms for Bonds
filled up as usual. Roll 2, 1676-82.]
Trippocke, John, of West Hurnham, yeo., & Mary Home,
of the same; B'dman, Geo. Frame, jun., of the Close, gen.;
Wit., Geo. Frome, sen. ; 14 Aug. 1673.
Carpenter, John, of the Close, Sarum, gent., & Mary
Downer, of Sarum, sp. ; B'dman, John Jennings, of the city
of Oxon., gen. ; 19 Aug.
Card, Robert, of Calne, Wilts, feltmaker, & Frances
Loocker, of the same, sp. ; B'dman, John Saunders, of the
same, cordwindcr ; 27 Sept.
Sanford, Abraham, of Lyme Regis, Dorset, & Rebeckah
Sanford, of the same ; B'dman, John Bowditch, of White-
church, Dorset; Wit, Tim. Hallctt, Geo. Alford, in a circle
T. H. on either side of a merchant's mark. Bowditch.
Seal : A shield of arms ; three leopards looking back.
Radcliffc, Jasper, of Exon, co. Devon, gener., & Jane
Andrew, of Lyme Regis, Dorset ; B'dman, Solomon Andrew,
of Lyme Regis, gen. ; 15 Sept.
Cogan, John, of Lyme Regis, Dorset, merchant, & Eliza-
Beth Alford, of the same ; B'dman, George Alford, mer-
chant, of the same. Cogan seals in an oval: J.C. over E. A.,
with a chain pattern between the letters. Alford seals
in a circle : Four leaves springing from a centre with in-
scription round the. edge.
Bod}-, Edward, s. of Edward Body, of Lyme Regis,
mariner, & Magdalen Bertram, of the same; B'dman,
Benjamin Stone, of the same, mariner; Wit., Mary Wesly ;
1 4 Oct.
Teap, Charles, of Lyme Regis, Dorset, mariner, & Anne
Peculiars of the Dean and Chapter of Saruut. 22 1
.Squire, of the same ; B'dman, John Squire, of the same,
mariner; Wit., Sarah Margarett ; 10 Sept. 1672.
Moyle, Robert, of Farrington, Berks, apothecary, & Mrs.
Mary Chandler, of Littlecoate, Ramsbury, Wilts ; B'dman,
Thomas Soper, of the same, gener. ; 7 Sept. 1673.
Wentworth, John, of the Close, Sarum, ropemaker, &
Alice Trucland ; B'dman, Wm. Eastmond, of Britford,
Wilts, yeo. ; 11 Oct. 1673.
Jefferyes, David, of Calne, Wilts, grocer, & Hannah Bird,
of the same, sp. ; B'dman, John Dashe, of the same,
chaundler ; 28 Oct.
Collins, John, & Sarah Keepe, of Bishopston ; B'dmen,
Isaac Purton, of the same, sheerman, and John Francis, of
Cheven Hampton, in Highworth, shepherd ; Wit., Thomas
Derham (sen. andjun.); 26 Mar. 1673.
Gorton, Richard, & Elizabeth Leader, both of Highworth;
B'dmen, Richard Leader, of Highworth, inholder, and Wm.
Oram, of Westrop, in Highworth, yeo. ; 5 Feb. 1672.
Witts, Edward, of Auborne, Wilts, fustian maker, &
Marrian Adams, late of Auborne, now of Ogborne St.
Andrew, sp. ; 27 Oct. 1673.
Weeks, Mr. John, of Shaston, Dorset, gener., & Rachell
Coombe, late of Shaston St. Lawrence, now of Netherhaven,
Wilts ; B'dman, John Daggle, of North Wotton, Dorset,
yeo. ; 4 Nov. 1673.
Painter, William, of Beaminster, Dorset, 3'eo., & Sarah
Keate, of the same, sp. ; B'dmen, John Keate, of the same,
sackweaver, and Nathaniel Leaves, of the same, sackweaver;
8 Nov. 1673.
Cole, Richard, of Anderston, Dorset, yeo., & Mary
Cleeves ; 12 Dec. 1673.
Stallard, Wm., of Ramsbury, Wilts, yeo., & Elizabeth
Streatc, of Wishford, sp. ; 25 Apr. 1074.
Symes, John, of Winterbprne Kingston, Dorset, &
Catherine Jolifie, of the same, wid. ; B'dman, John Alford,
222
of the same ; Wit., Thomas Cox, Ann Cox, Mar}* Fromton;
22 May.
Bediener, John, of Hurst, co. Berks, & Jane Berry, of the
same; B'dman, John Spire, of the same; Wit., Willm.
Bediener, Thomas Miller; 23 Sept. 1^73.
Shelton, Robert, jun., 24, of Bi-hopston. Wilts, yeo., &
Elizabeth King, of Wanting, co. Berk<, 25 ; B'dman, Robert
Shelton, sen., of Bishopston ; Wit., Daniel Freer, William
Savage; 26 Dec. 1672.
Aldworth, Henry, of Grove, in Wantinge, Berks, yeoman,
50, & Jane Humphry, of Grove, 48 ; B'dman, William
Savage, of the same, yeo. ; Wit. Edw. Wells, Daniel Freer;
S Feb. 1672.
Smart, John, of Charlton, in Wantinge, Berks, yeo., 43, &
Anne Jennings, of the same, sp., 42; B'dman, Humphrey
Jennings, of Charlton, gen. ; 2 Jan. 1673. Jennings seals
with an anchor.
Belcher, John, of Wantinge, co. Berks, glover, 26, &
Mary Wilson, of the same, sp., 21 ; B'dman, Richard
Belcher, of the same, husb. ; 14 Feb. 1673.
' Southby, Richard, of Appleton, Berks, gen., & Elizabeth
Head, of Winterborne, Berks; B'dman, Thomas Farmer, of
Wantinge, Berks, yeo. ; S Oct. 1073.
Nicholls, Thomas, of West Chalow, Berks, husb., 26, &
Elizabeth Aldridge, of Wantinge, 24; B'dman, Michael
Stiles, of Wanting, cordwainer ; 15 Oct. 1673.
Avis, Thomas, of Church Lam borne, Berks, yeo., 30, &
Amie (Ann in allegation) Barret, of the same, sp., 24 ;
B'dman, Richard Arrowsmith, of Wantinge, Berks, cord-
wainer ; S Oct. 1673.
Wells, John, of Farringdon, Berks, husb., 26, & Jane
Maschall, of Cholsley, Berks, sp., 20 ; B'dman, Richard
Wells, of Hatforde, Berks, husb. ; 7 Dec. 1672.
Gil lain, Richard, of St. Bartholomews, London, joyncr,
20, & Mary Wels, of Wantinge, sp., 23; B'dman, Humphry
Peculiars of the Dean and Chapter of Sarum. 223
Jennings, of Wantinge, als. Wantage, co. Berks; 23 Dee.
1672.
Gregory, William, the elder, of Wantinge, Berks, 64, &
Olliffc Furnifall, of Charlton, in Wanting, 72 ; B'dman,
Wm. Gregory, jun. ; 4 Feb. 1672.
Dunne, Edward, of Nununi, co. Oxon., basketmaker, 22,
& Rebecca Hood, of Wantinge, Berks, 24 ; B'dman, Robt.
Titcombe, of Wantinge, chapman ; 6 Oct. 1672.
Purton, John, of Bishopston, clothworker, & Elizabeth
Hull, of the same ; B'dman, Nicholas Shorter, of Witney,
co. Oxon., dyer ; 27 Jan. 1673.
Fomcs, John, of Highworth, jun., inholder, & Anne
Fitchers, of the same; B'dman, Anthony Mathews, of the
same ; 28 Nov. 1673.
Bayly, Edward, of Highworth, yeo., & Mary Butler, of
Bishopston; B'dman, John Wild, inholder; 27 Sept. 1673.
Searle, Anthony, of Southampton, mariner, & Luce
Perriar, late of Southampton, but now of Heitesbuiw ;
B'dman, Jeflfery Everett, of Sarum, spuryer; 8 June 1674.
Beck, Willm., of Sherborne, Dorset, & Mary Huxford, of
thesame; B'dman, Andrew Down, of the same ; 26 Feb. 1673.
Beck signs Beeke, and seals : A shield of anus, quarterly
1 and 4 a leopard rampant, 2 and 3 three stars. Down seals,
with what looks like a tree trunk in fess between fzvo leaves,
crescent for difference.
Syms, Arthur, & Elizabeth Osborne, of Chetnoll, in Yet-
minster, Dorset ; B'dman, Silas Osborne, of Chetnoll, gen.,
and Richard Yngs, of Sherborne, Dorset ; 22 Jan. 1673.
Pope, George, of Sherborne, Dorset, & Jane Keeping, of
the same; B'dmen, Tobias Keeping and John Chafe}', of
Sherborne; Wit., Tho. Mogg, Walter Chaffen, James
[Cheesaike ?].
Packer, Henry, & Mary Tucker, of Folk, Dorset ; B'dmen,
James Tucker, John Tucker, of Folk ; 22 Apr. 1674.
Parry, George, of Sarum, & Mary Cole, of Li Hi ng ton,
Dorset, wid. • B'dman, Nathaniel Highmore, of Sherborne,
224
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
M.D. ; two shields of arms, i, a /ess between three lozenges,
crescent on /ess for difference ; 2, a crossbow downwards
between three birds, not martlets.
Parsons, William, of Sherborne, gentleman, & Mary
Palmer, of Insbridge, co. Somerset; B'dman, Thos. Arnold,
of Alton, Dorset, generosus ; 7 Oct. 1673.
Loscombe, Christopher, of Yetminster, Dorset, yeoman,
& Grace Barrat, of Ryme Intrinseca, sp. ; B'dman, Richard
Flambart, of M interne ; Wit., Joseph Wills, Marie Winters
Date omitted. - ••
Game, Willm., of Maydon, co. Dorset, & Susanna Bower
of Cherretori, in Somerset; B'dman, Henry Mullet, of
Wotton Glandfeild, gener. ; 27 Apr. 1674; Wit., Susanna
Mullet, Tho. Game.
Hooper, George, of Stockwood, co. Dorset, gener., &
Sara Wayman, of Madbury, Devon ; B'dman, Joseph Wills,
of Hermitage, Devon; 21 Ma}7 1674.
Lewis, Edward, of Wincanton, Som., goldsmith, tS: Mary
Jarvis, of Lyme Regis, Dorset ; B'dman, Samuel Collings,
of Maperdon, Somt., clericus. Seal : A /ess with three boars
heads on a field semy of fieurs-de-lys, surmounted by a
squire's helmet and a crest of\?\ a stags head ; 25 Feb. 1 673 4.
Edmund R. Nevill.
(To be continued.)
QUAKERISM IN WILTSHIRE.
BURIALS.
(Continued jrom p. 1S3.J
E (continued).
*i 732-3-10.— Joshua Edwards, son of Thomas Edward-.
1732-9-21.— Rebecca Elliot, of Chippenham, wife of Henry
Elliot.
Quakerism in Wiltshire.
225
1732- 12-11. — Jane Eaton, of Corsham, widow of John Eaton.
1 733- 7-2 1. — Mar}7 Edwards, late of Biddeston, relict of
Francis.
1737-3-24. — At Chippenham, Joanna Edridge, near Chip-
penham, dau. of widow Edridge.
' 737_II-9- — At Pickwick, Jo?. Edwards, of Notten, ph. of
Laycock.
1 739-4-28. — At Pickwick, Robert Edwards, of Notten, ph. of
Laycock.
* 1 739- 1 2- 1 8. — John Emf.t, of Melksham.
1 741-10-27. — At Pickwick, Thomas Eaton, of Corsham.
1748-1-24. — At Chippenham, Johanna Edridge, of Monkton,
widow.
1750-11-8. — At Pickwick, Sarah Edwards, of Biddeston, wife
of J no. Edwards.
1 752- 10-29.— At Pickwick, Walter Edwards, of Notton.
1 753- 5-23.— At Pickwick, Mary Edwards, dau. of John
Edwards.
1758- 9-16. — At Pickwick, William Edwards, of Devizes.
* 1 7 59~9_ 1 3 — William Edwards, of Devizes.
1761- 9-3. — At Chippenham, Thomas Edridge, of Monkton
Mouse.
1 762- 4-25.— At Chippenham, Joanna Edridge, dau. of Thomas
Edridge.
176S-1-5. — At Pickwick, Mary Edwards, late of Notton,
widdow of Walter Edwards.
1773-10-27. — At Pickwick, John Edwards, of Church Yatton.
1759- 9-1.— At Melksham, James Edwards, son of James and
Mary Edwards, age 2. N.M.
1789-9-22. — At Melksham, Stephen Edwards, son of James
and Mary Edwards, age 2 months. N.M.
1 791-1-28.— At Chippenham, John Reeve Edridge, son of
Thomas Edridge, of Monkton.
1793-9-22. — At Melksham, Mary Edwards, junr., dau. of
lames and Mary Edwards, of Melksham,
age 3. N.M.
1803-11-26. — At Bradford, Ann Eyles, of Bradford, co. of
Wilts, wife of James Eylcs, age Si.
Q
226 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
1813-5-30. — At Melksham, Mary Edwards, of Bradford,, co.
of Wilts, wife of James Edwards (plumber),
age 53. N.M.
181 9- 10-3. — At Melksham, Thomas Edwards, of Batheaston,
y co. of Somerset (plumber), age 34. N.M.
* 1 704- 1 2-23. — Jane Fry, dau. of Sephaniah and Jane Fry.
*i 705/6-1-23. — Jane Fry [dau. of Joseph Fry].
1706-7-3. — Jone Flower, of ph. of Corsham, wife of John
Flower.
1709-5-6. — At Comerwell, Susanna Frickf.r, of Bradford, wife
of John Fricker.
* 1 709-5-3 1. — [Buried] at Comewell, John Frickf.r, of Bradford.
17 1 2-4-19. — At Warminster, Jane Fox.
*i 7 15-8-3. — [Buried] nr. Warminster, Jane Forrest, of
Warminster.
1715/6-1-1. — John Flower, of Corsham.
1 7 1 6-9-7. — Zephanah Fry, junr., of Chippenham.
*i722-i-5. — Jacob Furnell, of Marlbro', son of Isaac and
Katherine Furnell.
*i724~3-4. — Zephaniah Fry, of Sutton Benger.
•1724-8-13. — Eligah Furnell, of Marlbro', son of Isaac and
Katherine Furnell.
1 731-7-13.— At Hoibathac, ph. of Liskeard, Corn well, Thomas
Fennell, of Hilperton, a Minister.
* 1 73 1-9- » 5 Jane Fry, of Sutton, widow.
1731- 10-22. — John Fifefield, of Biddeston.
1732- 12- 1 6. --Mary Fifefield, of Biddeston, widdow of John
Fifefield.
*=" 1 734-S- 19. — Mary Furnell, of Marlbro', dau. of Isaac and
Katherine Furnell.
1736- 1-25. — At Chippenham, Susanna Ferris, of Chippenham.
1737- 5-20. — At Pickwick, Sarah Flower, nr. Corsham, wife of
Sam1. Flower.
,: 1 73S-1 2-22. —[Buried] at Man ton, Isaac Furnell, of Marlbro'.
1740-5-30. -Mary Farmer, of Chippenham.
1743-1 i-S. — At Calne, Hannah Fry, of Calston, widow.
1748-4-6.— At Stanton, William Fry, of Sutton Benger.
Quakerism in Wiltshire.
227
^1 750 . — [Buried] at Melksham, George Fennell, of Hil-
parton.
750-6-22. — At Pickwick, Samuel Flower, of Westfield.
"i 754-6 — . — Elizabeth Ferris, of Lyneham, dau. of Edward
and Hannah Ferris.
755-2-18. — At Tetherton, Margaret Fry, of Draycot, widdow.
K 1 757-9-7 or 8.— [Buried] at Melksham, Rebecca Fennell, late
of Hilperton Marsh, died at Holt, widdow of
George Fennell.
1758-1-10. — [Buried] at Shortwood, John Fowler, ph. of
Minching Hampton, co. of Gloucester.
:'i758-i-2o. — [Buried] at Shortwood, Daniel Fowler, late of
ph. of Minching Hampton, co. of Gloucester.
i 1 759-7-22. — [Buried] at Shortwood, Betty Ford, ph. of
Horsley, co. of Gloucester.
.762-2-25.— At Melksham, Katherine Fowler, of Melksham,
wife of Tho3. Fowler, and dau. of Sam1, and
Mary Rutter.
763-1-7. — At Stanton, Mary Fry, of Sutton Benger.
1766-8-2 1 . — At Pickwick, Ann Fry, of Pickwick, wife of Richd.
Fry, junior.
*i 766- 1 1-13 —[Buried] at Calne, Joseph Fry, son of Rich'1, and
Martha Fry, a Minister about two years.
1 766- 1 1 - 1 6. — At Calne, Joseph Fry, a Minister, of Calne, sou
of Richard and Martha Fry, age 25.
*i768-io-6. — [Buried] at Melksham, Rebecca Fowler, died at
Melksham, dau. of Thomas and Elizth.
Fowler, an infant.
1769-10-1. — At Melksham, Elizabeth Fowler, died at Melk-
sham, dau. of Thomas and EliztU. Fowler,
an infant.
1772-7-29. — At Calne, Richard Fry, of Calne, a Minister.
1775-8-27. — At Melksham, John Fry, late of Sutton Benger,
aged 7.}.
1775-9-20. — At Melksham, Mary Fry, late of Sutton Benger,
widow of John Fry, aged 71.
1779- 1 1-22. — At Broomham. Richard Few, of ph. of Broomham,
aged 73.
1780- 2-17. — At Sarum, Sybil Francis, died at Salisbury,
age 42.
Q 2
228
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
1 780-6- 1 4. — At Calne, Martha Fry, late of Calne, widow of
Richard Fry, age 70.
1 783-5- 1 5. — At Melksham, Thomas Fowler, of Melksham,
age 54.
1787-4-15. — At Melksham, Elizabeth Fowler, of Melksham,
co. Wilts, widow of Thomas Fowler, late of
Minchin Hampton, co. of Gloucester, age 50.
1789-2-6. — At Bromham, William Few, of Broomham, age 52.
N.M.
1 791 - 7-29. — At Calne, Hannah Starrs Fry, late of Melksham,
co. Wilts, spinster, age 46.
1792- S-20. — At Malbro', Elizabeth Furnell, of Marlbro', co.
of Wilts, age S3.
1794-4-1 [.— At Malbro', Ann Furnell, of Marlbro', co. of
Wilts, dau. of Joseph and Elizth. Furnell,
age 2 1 .
1 794-1 1 -2. — At Melksham, Catherine Fowler, parents at
Melksham, Wilts, dau. of Rob1, and Rachel
Fowler, age 14 month-.
1797-2-3. — At Bromham, Hannah Few, of Broomham, co. of
Wilts, widow, age 57. N.M.
1800-1-31. — At Manton, nr. Malbro', Elizabeth Furnell, of
Marlbro, co. of Wilts, wife of Josb. Furnell,
age 59.
1802-9-24. — At Redclift Pitt, Hannah Fltcher, of Melksham,
co. of Wilts, widow, age 65.
1809-7-14. — At Manton, near Malbro', Joseph Furnell, of
Marlbro', co. of Wilts, cheese factor, age 72.
1812-1 2-16.— At Marlbro', Mary Furnell, of Marlbro', co. of
Wilts, spinster, age 73.
1S14-7-20. — At Devizes, Sarah Fowler, of Coventry, spinster,
age 76.
1822-6-9. — At Pickwick, Ann Maria Ford, of Calne, co. of
Wilts, wife of Thomas Ford, age 72. N.M.
1825-5-3. — At Melksham, Robert Fowler, of Melksham, co.
of Wilts, gent., age 70.
1S2S-3-17. — At Pickwick, Thomas Ford, of Calne, co. of
Wilts, baker, age 73. N.M.
1 832-2-1 7. — At Calne, Catherine Field, of Calne, co. of Wilts,
widow, aged 7S.
Quakerism in Wiltshire. 229
1832- 11-14. — At Avignon, South of France, Robert Fowler,
of Melksham, merchant, son of late Robert
Fowler, age 24.
1833- 9-4. — At Melksham, Rachel Fowler, of Melksham, co.
of Wilts, widow of Robert Fowler, age 66.
G.
* 1 702-7-22. — Hannah Gye, of Lavington, dau. of John Gyc.
*i702-i2-n. — [Buried] at Comcrwell, John Grant, of Brad-
ford, son of George and Ann Grant.
* 1 704-7-26. — Jane Gesford, of North Bradlv.
1704-7-29. — At Comerwell, Jane Gefford, of Northbradly.
i7o6-4~2S[?]. — Ann Grant, of Bradford, wife of George Grant.
*i 705-5- 1 8.— [Buried] at Comerwell, Ann Grant, of Bradford,
dau. of George and Ann Grant.
*i 707-9-29. — [Buried] at Comerwell, Sarah Gerrish, dau. of
Thos. and Ann Gerrish.
*i 707-1 2-9. — Edward Gyl, son of John and Elizth. G}re.
* 1 708-8-24.-- Ann Grant, of Bradford, wife of George Grant.
*i7 10-5-12. — Thomas Gerrish, of Bromham, a Minister.
1714- 2-28. — At Lavington, Martha Gyk, of Lavington, dau. of
Edwd.f junr., and Martha Gye.
1715- 3-24. — Edward Gye, of Lavington Forum.
1715-5-27. — At Warminster, Mary Gardener, of Warminster,
dau. of Will"1, and Margret Gardener.
*j 7 1 5-8-4. — [ ] Gerrish, widow.
1715-8-30. — At Lavington Forum, Elizabeth Gyl:, of Laving-
ton, wife of John G}'e.
1715- 9-14. — At Lavington Forum, Agnes Gye, of Lavington,
wife of Edward Gyc.
1 7 16- 1-25. — At Laines, ph. of Warminster, Will"'. Gardener,
senr.
1716-3-17. — Mary Gouldney, of Chippenham, a Minister.
1720- 3-1S. — At Wearminstcr, Mary Gardener, of Warmister,
widdow.
1721- 5-9. — At Lavington, Sarah Gye, of Lavington, dau. of
Edward and Martha Gye.
*i 721-5-1 1.— [Buried] at Lavington, Hannah Gyl , dau. of
Edward and Martha Gye.
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
1721-5-14. — At Lavipgton, Martha Gye, of Lavington, dau. of
Edward and Martha Gye.
1 7 23- 8- 1 6. — At Lavington, John Gye, of Lavington, son of
John and Elizth. Gye.
*i 723-12-29.— Rich'1. Gawen, son of Richd. Gawcn.
1724- 3-3. — At Warminster, Mary Gardiner, of Warminster,
dau. of Will™, and Marg*. Gardiner.
1726-6-9. — At Lavington, Ann Gye, dau. of John Gye.
*i728-i-29. — John Gundy, son of John Gundy.
*i 728/9-1 2-23. — Jeremiah Gouldney, of Marlbro'.
*i 729-7-6. — Andrew Gardiner, of Charlcot.
1730- 12-15. — Elizabeth Gouldney, dau. of Adam and Sylvester
Gouldney.
* 1 73 1-7-2. — [ ] Gerrish, of Broomham, wife of Tho\
Gerrish.
1731- 8-19.— Adam Gouldney, of Chippenham.
* 1 73 1 - 1 1 -28. — Hesther Gerrish, near Bromham, wife of
Thomas Gerrish.
* 1 732- 1 -4. — Henry Gerrish, of Bromham.
* 1 734/5-1 2- 1 2. — Grace Grant, dau. of George and Hester
Grant.
*' 735~ 1 °_ 1 7- —Samuel Gye, of Market Lavington.
* 1 735-10-28. — Ann Golden, of Charlcoat Monthly Meeting,
widdow.
*i 737- 10-2. —Christian Grant, of Lavington Monthly Meeting,
dau. of Rob1, and Ann Grant.
1 739- 1-1 6. — At Pickwick, Richard Gawen, of Gorsham side,
late of Pickwick.
*i 739-2-1. — Jane Gardiner, of Warminster, wife of John
Gardiner.
*i 741- 1-3. - Sarah Gray, of Lavington, wife of Edw'1. Gray.
* 1 743-3-3.- - [Buried ] at Gomerwcll, George Grant, senr., of
Bradford.
1743-6-25. — At Chippenham, Jane Gouldney, late of Chippen-
ham, dau. of Adam Gouldney.
* 1 743-7-1 1.— Ann Grant, wife of Robert Grant.
*i743-S-i2. — Sarah Godwin, of Marlbro', widdow.
* 1 743- 1 1-^8. — Mary Gye, of Bromham, wife of John Gye.
A Calendar of Feet of Fines for Wiltshire. 231
1744-6-2. — At Broomham, Mary Gee, of Broomham, wife of
John Gee.
1744-7-3.— At Chippenham, Adam Gouldney, late of Chippen-
ham, son of Adam Gouldney.
1746-8-1 1. — At Warminster, Christian Gardiner, of War-
minster.
1746-8-16. — At Lavington, John Gye, of Lavington.
1 749- 1 0-7. — At Chippenham. Sylvester Gouldney, of Chip-
penham, widdow.
1752- 1-12. — At Loyns, William Gardiner, of Warminster.
1753- 3-25. — At Comerwell, Christian Grant, late of Bradford,
widdow of George Grant, senr.
* 175 7-2-5. — Mary Gee, of Bromham, dau. of John Gee.
* 1757-3-27. — Hickman Gee, of Bromham.
1758 . — At Lavington, Elizabeth Gye, late of Lavington,
relict of John Gye, a Minister.
1758-7-19. — At Chippenham, Mary Goldney, late of Chippen-
ham, died at Gardner Street, Sussex.
Norman Penney.
(To be eon finned)
A CALENDAR OF FEET OF FINES FOR WILTSHIRE.
(Continued from />. 87.)
Elizabeth,
Easter Term.
426. Anno 10. — Humphrey Burdett and John Ryves,
arm., and Richard Brunyng, arm., and Elenore his wife;
manor of Somford Bowes, messuage.^ and lands in Somford
Bowes, Great Somrford, Little Somrford and Brynckworth.
Trinity Term,
427. Anno 10. — William Pyers and TiiOSras Saunders,
alias Mylles ; messuages and lands in Barwycke Bassett.
£99-
232
Wiltshire iXotcs and Queries.
428. Anno 10.— Thomas Hodges and John Smalwaod,
and Edmund Estcourt and Johanc his wife ; manor of Hamp-
worth, messuages and lands in Hampworth, VVhiteparishe,
and Downton. T^ioo.
429. Anno 10. — Richard Watts and John Watts, son of
Richard, and William Poole ; messuages and lands in Lok-
yngton. £40.
430. Anno 10. - William Rede, gen., and Richard Warre,
gen., and Agnes his wife ; messuages and lands in Tytherton
Lucas and Chipnam. 30 marks.
431. Anno 10. —William Sadler and William Chaderton,
gen., Laurence Chaderton, gen., and Thomas Chaderton, arm.;
messuages and lands in the parish of Wotton Basset. ^80.
432. Anno 10. — Humphrey Burdett, arm., and Geoffrey
Upton, gen., and William Leversegge, arm., and Grace his
wife ; messuages and lands in Rudlowe alias Radlowe and
Boxe. ^140.
433. Anno 10. — Anthony Hungerford, gen., and William
Chaderton, gen., and Laurence Chaderton ; manor of West
Bedvvyn, alias Great Bedwyn, messuages and lands in West
Bedwyn, alias Great Bedwyn, and East Bedwyn, alias Lytle
Bedwyn. 200 marks.
434. Anno 10. — Robert Weare, alias Browne, gen., and
William Chaderton, gen., Laurence Chaderton, gen., and
Thomas Chaderton, arm. ; messuages and lands in the parish
of St. Peter in Marlborough and Presshut. £60.
435. Anno 10. — John Hawles, jun., and Joseph Comp-
ton, gen., and Henry Uvedall and lsabell his wife ; manor of
Brydmcrc, messuages and lands in Brydmerc, and Barwick
St. John. ^400.
436. Anno 10. — John Readc, sen., and Humphrey Reade,
and Richard Warre and Agnes his wife ; messuages and lands
in Titherton Lucas and Langley Burrell. ,£80.
437. Anno 10. -James Sharrock, gen., and Hugh Haw-
ker, arm., and Elizabeth his wife; manor of Heytredesbury
alias Heytesbury ; messuages and lands in 1 levtredesbury,
A Calendar of Feet of Fines for Wiltshire.
alias Heytesbury, Tydrington, alias Tyderington, Knoke,
Hyndon, Eascourtc, and Wescourt, also the Hundred of
Heytredesbury, alias Heytesbury. ^640.
438. Anno 10. — Thomas Larke, William Whyte, John
Scott, Thomas Davison, Robert Watton, and George Flower,
clericus, and John Stottman, gen. ; messuages and lands in
Slaughtenforde, Hartham, and Buddeston, with the rectories of
Slaughtcnfordc, Hartham, and Buddeston, with tithes of
grains, etc., in those places. ,£200.
Michaelmas Terai.
439.. Anno 10 and 11. — Margery Ford, widow, and
William Waller, arm. ; messuages and lands in New Sarum.
440. Anno 10 and 11. — William Sadler and William
Chaderton, gen., and Bridgett his wife ; messuages and lands
in Wotton Bassett. ^44.
441. — Anno 10 and 1 1. — Richard Bathe and Simon Hunt,
and Sibill his wife ; messuages and lands in Wotton Bassett.
£-\o.
442. Anno 10 and 11. — Robert Weare, alias Browne,
gen., and William Chadderton, gen., and Bridgett his wife ;
messuages and lands in the parish of St. Peter, Marlborough,
and Presshutt. £60.
443. Anno 10 and 1 1. — William Edwards and John
Mumford and Joane his wife ; messuages and lands in Wotton
Bassett. £40.
444. Anno 10 and 11.— Robert Lewen and John Smith
and Alice his wife ; messuages and lands in Le Devyzes.
445. Anno 10 and 11. — Anthony Hungerford, gen., and
William Chaderton, gen., and Bridgett his wife; manor of
West Bedwyn, alias Great Bedwyn, messuages and lands in
West Bedwyn, alias Grcate Bedwyn and Est Bedwyn, alias
lytic Bedwyn. 200 marks.
446. Anno 10 and 11. — James Pagett, arm., and Richard
2 54 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Lewkenor, arm., and Man- his wife ; manor of Alyngton,
messuages and lands in Alyngton and Alcannynges. .£520.
447. Anno 10 and 11. — Howell Tycheborne and Richard
Cannon and James Malyarde and Alice his wife ; messuages
and lands in the parish of St. Thomas in the city of New
Sarum. £,A°'
44S. Anno 10 and 11.— Thomas Saunders, alias Mylles,
jun., and William Box, citizen and grocer, of London, and
Thomas Saunders, alias Milles, sen., manor of Barvvicke
Bas>ett ; messuages and lands in Barvvick Bassett. ,£302.
440. Anno 10 and n. — Philip Poore and John Daye and
Edith his wife ; messuage and lands in Newton Tonye. £40.
450. Anno 10 and ii. — Thomas Francklyn and Simon
Hunt and Sibyl his wife ; messuage and lands in Wotton
Bassett. 7740.
451. Anno 10 and 11. — Thomas Longe and Elizabeth his
wife aud John Warde, jun., and Joan his wife ; manor of
Blounts Courte and lands in Potterne. £40.
452. Anno 10 and 1 1 .--William Matiltwyte, alias Morse,
and Thomas Watson, gen. ; a third part of the manor of
Wycke, and a third part of land- in Wyck, Heydon, Rodborn
Che)*ne3*, and Pirton. ,£80.
455. Anno 10 and 11. — Robert Hancock and William
Whytyngs and John Wake and Jane his wife ; messuages
and lands in Lye, near the parish of Aston Keyns.
454. Anno 10 and 11. — John Allen, Robert Wcare, alias
Browne, John Lovell, John Cornewall, Thomas Tyke, Richard
Colman, John Herste, Laurence Wullridge, aud Robert
Sumerfelde and Christiana his wife; lands in Marlborough.
455. Anno 10 and 11.— William Loveday and William
Rawlyns and Alice his wife, and Henry Rawlyns ; lands in
VYarmester and Warmester Heath.
45'j- Anno 10 and 11. -William Loveday, gen., and
Edward Long, gen., and Thomas Nicholas, gen. ; lands in
Westbury.
Queen Anne at Whetham.
235
457. Anno 10 and 11. — William Lovedav and John
Stayner and Joan his wife, and John Hettyer ; messuages
and lands in Fifield, alias Fyfed, and Byrdchaulke.
E. A. Fry.
(To be continued.)
QUEEN ANNE AT WHETHAM.
In the autumn of 1703, Queen Anne visited Whctham
Mouse, on her way from Bath, and remained there one or
more nights. Her host on this occasion was John Kyrle
Ernie, Esq., grandson of Sir John Ernie, of Whetham, who
had been Chancellor of the Exchequer in the reigns of
Charles II and James II. A fine old table, of carved oak,
in the possession of the late Mrs. Starky, of Battle Mouse,
Bromham, is traditionally said to have been the one on which
dinner was laid for her Majesty on this occasion.
The wife of Mr. Ernie, the owner of Whetham at the time
of the Royal visit, was Constantia, sister of Edward Rolt, Esq.,
of Sacomb Park, Herts. The latter married the heiress of
Baynton of Spye Park, and their son, Sir Edward Baynton
Rolt, of Spye Park, M.P. for Chippenham, died in 1S00, aged
89. The ownership of the table can thus be easily traced.
It was taken by Mrs. Starky some years ago from an old
manor house at Chittoc, formerly the property of the Baynton
family.
On the Queen's departure from Whetham some horses
belonging to the neighbouring farmers are said to have
assisted in drawing the Royal cavalcade up the steep ascent
towards Beacon Mill and Beckhampton, which was then the
main road from Bath to Marlborough.
The present Whetham Mouse is only a wing of the old
mansion as it stood at the time of the Royal visit.
Edward Kite.
236
EARLY BEQUESTS TO WILTSHIRE HIGHWAYS.
By a deed dated at Chippenham, 12th June 14 Edward IV
[1474], Matilda, relict of John Ilethe, ofTytherton Kelloways,
conveyed certain lands and tenements in Chippenham to
feoffees, for the construction and maintenance of a Causeway
in that neighbourhood — still well known as "Maud Heath's
Causey". The original deed of conveyance is printed in the
second volume of Wilts N. & O., pp. 233-4.
Two years later, Robert Hynde, goldsmith and burgess
of Bristol, by will dated 17 May 1476, bequeathed the sum of
vjs. viijdl "to the King's way between Chepnam and Calne
towards London"— indicating the line of road used by the
merchants and tradesmen of Bristol in their journeys to
London during the 15th century.
Nearby a century earlier, Elias Spell}', burgess of Bristol,
by will dated 13 January 1390 [14 Richard II], made a bequest
to the fabric of a certain bridge between Calne and Chiriell
[Cherhill].
And the will of William Bekeswell, another burgess of
Bristol, dated 1392, contains a legacy "to the mending of the
Common way in Chippenameslanc and of that near Calne".
Other similar bequests will probably occur to some of our
Wiltshire correspondents. Where was the bridge between
Calne and Cherhill mentioned in 1390 ?
E.K.
©times.
Steeple Ashton Yicarage. — Dr. Thomas Tanner, Bishop
of St. Asaph (who was a native of Market Lavington), in a
letter addressed to Peter Le Neve, Norroy King of Arms,
dated 25 October 1698, mentions a very pretty benefaction of
a Norfolk man, "that died at the Devizes when I was last in
Wiltshire", to Magdalen College, Cambridge, namely, the
Queries.
237
impropriation of Steeple Ashton, worth ^100 per annum, for
the maintenance of a Fellow abroad travelling (a Norfolk man
born). Also the perpetual advowson of the Vicarage of
Steeple Ashton, worth ^?ifc per annum. (See Nichols'
Illustrations of the Literary History of the iSt/i Century, vol. iii,
The individual here alluded to was Mr. Drue Drurv, of
Riddlesworth Hall, co. Norfolk, who in 169S gave by will the
impropriate Parsonage of Steeple Ashton to Magdalen College
for the maintenance of "The Norfolk Travelling Fellowship",
the Master of which College now nominates the vicar.
How did this Mr. Drurv, as a Norfolk man. become
possessed of the patronage of Steeple Ashton ; and, if he died
at Devizes, was he a resident there at the time, or is he buried
there? I do not remember any memorial of him in either of
the Devizes churches. Scriba.
A Wiltshire Labyrinth, or Miz-Maze.— Gough. in his
edition of Camden's Britannia, thus notices an ancient turf-
maze cut on the greensward of the village common at West
Ashton :' —
"In this parish, on a common, is cut in the ground a circular maze
64 feet diameter, the central circle S feet; formed on the principle of
those in Dorset and Essex. Tradition makes it a work of the shepherds
lor their amusement in running it, which the boys still do."'
Two turf-mazes of this description — one at Pimpern, in
Dorsetshire, which covered nearly an acre of ground, and was
ploughed up in 1730 ; the other, a very ancient example, 110
feet in diameter, from the common adjoining Saffron Walden,
in Essex — probably two of those alluded to by Gough— are
figured in the Journal of the Archaeological Institute.
Dr. Stukcley, in his day, claimed for these mazes a Roman
origin — but on comparing the English specimens cut in the
turf with similar designs found in French mediaeval churches,
it seems more probable that both are to be referred to the
ecclesiastics of the Middle Ages— and after the Reformation
238 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
the English turf mazes were converted into a medium of
recreation, as referred to in several passages of Shakespeare
Aubrey, in his History of Surrey, says that there were
many mazes in England before the Civil Wars, and that the
young people used on festivals to dance upon them — or, as the
term was, to tread them — as Gough says the West Ashton
boys did in his time with the one in that village.
The great skill required to trace out these complicated
devices seems to negative the idea of a pastoral origin, as
claimed by Gough for the West Ashton example, but that
the}7 were afterwards re-cut by them is not improbable.
Is anything more to be found respecting the maze here
alluded to, or are any other examples known to have existed
in Wiltshire ? Wiltonikxsis.
Colonel Richard Townesend. — Information desired con-
cerning his pedigree. Is believed to have married a Hyde, ol
Lord Clarendon's family, between 1637-47. Born 1619-20 ;
served at siege of Lyme Regis 1644 ; Commissioner at
surrender of Pendennis Castle, with Lyme soldiers, 1646 ;
assisted in bringing Cork over to Cromwell 1649. Died at
Castle Townshcnd, co. Cork, 1692. He bore the arms of
Townshend of Norfolk. Tradition states that the favourable
terms of the grants of his Irish lands, and his pardon at the
Restoration, were due to his connexion with Lord Clarendon
and the first Viscount Townshend, after whom one of his sons
was named. Tradition also says he descended from a Roger
Townsend, but no documents earlier than his land grants, in
1666, have been preserved in Ireland.
R. B. Townshend (Mrs.).
117, Banbury Road, Oxford.
Kent of Berks and Wilts.— Can any of your readers
supply any genealogical notes about the members of these
families in the time of Queen Anne, and a little earlier:
Replies.
239
1. Clement Kent,1 who died 1746, was returned M.P. for
Wallingford in 1705, and sat for Reading 1721-7.
2. Michael Kent, of Binfield, died 1748.
3. Walter Kent, was returned for Ludgershall in 1705.
4. Richard Kent, who owned Corsham Manor, was
elected for Chippenham, earlier, in [684 ; and
5. Richard Kent, was rector of Fisherton Anger and Sub-
Dean of Salisbury till 169?.
I shall be grateful for details showing the connexion (if any)
of the above, and especially for information about Clement,
who was of Thatcham. James Davenport.
Harvitigton Rectory,
Eve si 1 a in.
Implies.
Wilton Cedars (vol. v, pp. 435-6, 525).— The date of
these beautiful trees, which I have given as 1640, is apparently
correct. Mr. J. Landfear Lucas, writing from Hindhead, in
August last, to the Pall Mall Gazelle and Morning Pos/,
communicates the following particulars respecting their
history, with which he had recently been favoured by the
Earl of Pembroke : —
"The third Karl of Devonshire [William Cavendish], the fourth
Earl of Pembroke [Philip Herbert], who was Lord Chamberlain of the
Household to Charles I, and Chancellor of the University of Oxford,
together with the Bishop of London of that day [William Juxon, after-
wards Archbishop of Canterbury], sent out two collectors to the Holy
Land, who returned from Lebanon in 1640, with, among other things,
the cedars now flourishing in Wilton Park."
1 He was third cousin of the grandchildren of Griffith Kent, of South-
ward, Norway Merchant, born at Sunning, Berks, who married a grand-
daughter of Lord Forbes, and widow of John Shorter, of Staines. Some of
Clement's branch were buried in the Chancel at Coring. — ■ Genealogist, ii,
185. [Ed.]
240
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
One of the most beautiful examples of the tree in full
growth is at Titehmarsh Rectory, Northamptonshire, said to
have been planted at a still earlier date, in 1627 — the tree
itself being then some twenty years old. It is now over
seventy-six feet in height, and its spread at least one hundred
yards in circumference.
John Evelyn, who was born in 1620, can therefore hardly
have been the first person to introduce the cedar of Lebanon
into England, as some persons have supposed.
Edward Kite.
Greenhill (vol. v, pp. 189, 329). — There are mistakes at
these pages. Henry Greenhill was the son of John Greenhill.
If he had a brother David, a fact which the Register of
Stockton would prove, his father too was John. M.I. in
Stockton Church.
Vert, two bars argent, in chief a /ion passant or, impaling argent,
on a chevron gules three garbs or. a canton of the second charged with a
fret of the third. Eardley (?).
"Henry Greenhill, Esq., son of John Greenhill, of Stipleaston, In
thes County of Wilts, Esq., ec Penelope his wife, daughter of Richard
Champneys, of Orchardley, in the County of Somerset, Esq., born in.
this Parish the 21st of June 1646. went to sea young, made many
Voyages to the West Indies, and visited most other Parts of the known
World. In the Year 1676 he did the Dutch signal Service by Burning
and Destroying several French Ships at Petit Guavas, for which he was
Generously rewarded by the Lords of THEIR Admirlty. In 16S0 The
Royal African Co. sent him to Cabo Corso Castle, their Agent General
and Chief Governour of the Gold Coust of Africa. In 16S5 He was
elected Eider Brother of the Trinity House of Deptford, Stroud, To the
Poor of which Corporation He was a Good Benefactor. In 16S9 made
Commissioner of the Transport Office, and in 1691 appointed one of the
Principal Officers and Commissioners of the Navy : he laid the founda-
tion and Pinished the Buildings <>f Her Maiesty's Dockyard near
Plymouth, where He died the 24 of .May 170S, and lies interred near this
Place."
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Wiltshire JEtotcs ants Queries,
JUNE, 1909.
RUTH PIERCE.
mi
HE inscription on the Market Cross at Devizes,
recording the sudden death of one Ruth Pierce, of
Potterne, in that market, on Thursday, 251)1 January
Jwftf 1753, is well known. Under the title of " I he Lie
V*$*X Punished", the story forms the subject of one of the
publications of the Religious Tract Society.
From the very rare leaflet which is here reproduced in
facsimile, it will be seen that, as early as 1760, the narrative
of the event, "Copied from a monumental stone in the market
place", and verified by the signature of Ralph Good, mayor of
the borough, was printed and circulated as a warning "to
deter all persons from calling down the vengeance of God, or
taking His Holy Name in vain."1
The "monumental stone" on which the event was at first
recorded, by order of the borough authorities, was an inscribed
tablet placed in the Butcher's Shambles, an erection consisting
of several rows of stalls standing nearly in the centre of the
market-place, and shown on Dore's plan of the town published
in 1759. These old shambles were taken down about 1790,
1 In the fine old fount of type we at once recognize the work of Mr.
Thomas Burrough, the Devizes printer of this date. The border of skulls,
crossed bones, and hour glasses is not inappropriate.
Ralph Good, the Devizes m;i>or of 17G0, died during his year of office.
The name is of frequent occurrence in the register of Broadchalk, in .South
Wilts, from 1579 downwards.
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242 Wiltshire h otcs and Queries.
when Mr. William Halcomb, the then landlord of the "Bear",
caused the tablet jo be affixed to his own sign — a structure of
stone with solid basement, supporting a double column, with
the figure of the chained bear (now over the entrance doorway)
on the top. This stood in the open market-place, at some
distance from the front of the Inn, and was removed in 1S01.
On the erection of the present Market Cross, by Lord
Ruth Pierce.
243
Sidmouth, in 18 14, his architect, Mr. Benjamin Wyatt, having
rejected a proposition to insert into the new building the
original tablet descriptive of Ruth Pierce's death, it was finally
discarded, and is now in the Devizes Museum; a new and
somewhat altered version, of which we give a photograph by
Dr. Leech, of the County Asylum, being eventually inscribed
on the east panel of the new Cross, where it still remains.
To the above may be added a copy of the inquisition on
the body of Ruth Pierce, taken 26th January 1753 — the day
following that of her death — the original of which is now in
the Devizes Museum.
"Wiltshire \ An Inquisition indented, Taken at the Burrough of
to Witt ( Devizes, in the County of Wilts aforesaid, on the
Twenty-sixth day of January, in the Twenty-sixth of the Reign of our
Sovereign Lord George the Second, by the Grace of God of Great
Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, etc., before
me, John Clare, Gent., one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King
for the County aforesaid, Upon View of the Body of Ruth Peirce (late
of Pottern in the said County, Widdovv), then and there lying Dead, and
upon the Oath of
Richard Anstie Richard Williams William Hillier
William Slade J°hn Williams Robert Hayward
Gabriel Bartlctt Ambrose Portch Joseph Chandler
Robert Phipp Joseph Akers William Lewis
Good and Lawful! men of the County aforesaid, who being sworn and
charged to inquire how, in what manner, when, and where the aforesaid
Ruth Peirce died and came by her death, upon their Oaths aforesaid do
say and present, that on the Twenty-fifth day of January, in the Twenty
Sixth year aforesaid, between the hours of Ten and Eleven of the Clock
in the fforenoon of the said Day, a Great Quarrell arose between ffour
Women, in the Market Place at the Burrough of Devizes aforesaid,
Whose Names was Elizabeth Slade, Sarah Slade, Mary Parker, and the
aforesaid Ruth Peirce, who joined together and bought one sack of wheat
of one ffarmer Nathaniel Alexander, at the Price of Seventeen Shillings,
which makes ffour Shillings and Three Pence each; when the ffarmer
summ'd up the Dividends it wanted three pence of the price agreed, for
which by Evidence it appeared to he this Ruth Pence's right to pay;
she, the said Ruth, was accused with it, she declared she had paid it,
and called upon the Almighty for Wittness, and wished she might drop
down dead that Minuet if she had not paid it. The Raish wish was
repeated a second Time, and immediately, from the Visitation of the
Great and Almighty God, was struck dead upon the Same, and as no
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244 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
marks of Violence appeared upon View of the Body, the aforesaid Jurors
do present that the aforesaid Ruth Peirce died as aforesaid and not
otherwise.
"In Witness whereof, as well I, the aforesaid Coroner, as the Jurors
aforesaid, have interchangeably set our Hands to this Inquisition, the
Day, Year, and Place flirst above written."
Perhaps poor Ruth Pierce lias been unjustly pilloried
through all these generations, for we see in the Inquest no
mention of "money concealed in her hand", in the first
inscription "some money concealed in her hand"; in the
second inscription are the words "the money concealed in
her hand", and if there ever should be a third inscrip-
tion it may contain "the exact sum of money concealed in
her hand", as it has been always told to the writer— thus is
history, so called, often written. This is not the place to
discuss the propriety of the inscription, or its public position ;
the writer is amongst those who wish to see the present
inscription take its place with the original in the Devizes
M useum.
STORES.
(Continued from p. 197.J
Pedigree.
Win. Snell de Aldeholt alias Alderwood in the parish of Cram-
borne in com. Dorset, mar. Florence, one of the coheirs of Wm. Key-
nell of Yatton Keynel in com. Wilis, Esq.; Snell, impaling, Sable, on
a fess between six arrows bendwise argent% three Moor's heads ; and have
issue,
Kichd. Snell of Kington St. Michaell in com. Wilts, Esq., mar.
Joane, daughter of Nicholas Lyte of Easton Piercy in com. Wilts, by his
2nd wife; Snell, impaling, (rules, a chevron or between three swans
proper, crescent for difference ; and have issue,
Nich. Snell of Kington St. Michaell in com. Wtits, mar. Alice,
daughter of John {George?) Pye of the citty of Oxford ; Snell, impal
Argent, on a fess sable three escallops or {? of the pel<t) ; and have issue,
Edith, mar. Edmund Stokes ; STORES of Tytherton impaling, Snell;
and refers to other issue on next page.
S/o/ccs.
245
I. John Snell of Kington, Esq., died at Easton Piercy, Xov. 17, and
was buried Dec. 13, at Kington, 15S7; mar. Katherine. daughter of John
Warnford of Sevenhampton in com. Wilts. Esq. : Snell, impaling, Per
fess embattled argent and sable, in chief three crosses faty, and in base as
many counterchanged : and have issue,
Sir Thos. Snell of Kington, Knight, mar. Anne, dan. of Sir Robert
Long of Draycot Cerne in com. Wilts, Knight ; Snlll. impaling, Sab/e,
scmy of crosses-crosslet, a lion rampant argent, and have issue,
Sir Chas. Snell of Kington, Knight, died unmarried Nov. 24, 1651,
aetat. 6i ; Quarterly, Snell and Kevnell. Barbara, 3rd daughter, mar.
Christopher Stokes (see above). Susan, 4th daughter, died unmarried,
and was buried 1698. Penelope, eldest dau. and one of the co-
heirs of Sir Chas. Snell, mar. lien. Newman, and have issue. Ann,
couz. and one of the coheirs of Sir Chas. Snell; mar. John Sadler;
Sadler, impaling Quarterly, Newman and Snell, (and have issue)
Muriel] Sadler, eldest daughter and coheir, mar. Isaac Gale, of Boles-
hyde in p'ish of Kington; Dorothy, 2nd daughter and coheir, mar. Wm.
Coleman, of Langley in p'ish of Kington, gent.; Marg., 3rd dau. and
heir, mar. Thos. Stokes de Kington (see above) ; and .Margaret, mar.
Edu\ Stokes of Stanshawes (sec above). Alary, 2nd dau., mar. Nicholas
Gastrell, gent., and have issue, Rebecca, only dau., mar. Nat. Power,
gen., of Hullavington in com. Wilts; Per pale gules and vert (? azure)
on a chief argent three mullets sable, mullet for difference, impaling, 1
and 4 Cheeky argent and sable, on a chief or three stag's heads in profile
couped of the second. 2 and 3, Snell; (and have an only son, James
Power, gent., nephew and sole heir of James Gastrell of Kington, gent.)
James Gastrell, only son and heir, died unmarried.
II. Thos. Snell (son of Nicholas Snell and Alice, see above) de
L'Oxwell, ma?: Eliza, da. of Joh. Banner of Glouc, has issue, Mary,
mar. John Sadler of ; Sadler, impaling, Snell ; (have a son
John Sadler, mar. Ann Newman, see above). Oliver Sneli, of Bristol,
3rd son, had issue, Nicholas Snell of Glouc, father of Tims. Snell of
Glouc. (?), Esq., who has issue, Walter Snell, 5th son, had issue, Thos.
Snell of Redhill, who had issue Charles Snell of Kington Langley, who
left issue, Chas. Win. and Thos. Snell, now living, 1701. Edwd. Snell
of Bath, 2nd son, novo Irving, 1623, of Foxham, co. Wilts : mar. Mary,
dau. of Rich. Dawuccyc, of Potterne, CO. Wills, had issue. Thos.. mar.
Frisivith, dau. of Rob. Stratton, who died without issue. Nicholas Snell,
4th son, who died unmar. ; and Richd. Snell of L'Oxwell, eldest son and
heir, living 1623; mar. Judith, eldest d^u. of Willi. on BayiifFe of Monk-
ton, near Chippenham, Esq.; ob. Dec. j, 1628; bur. at Chippenham ;
Snell, impaling, Sable, a chevron between three hearts or; have a sou,
John Snell of Alderholt, mar. Katherine, daughter of Philip Pleydell "i
in com. Glouc. ; Snell, crescent far difference, impaling,
Argent, a bend gules gutty 'dean between two Cornish choughs, a chief
cheeky or and sable ; and have a sou, Chas. Snell, of Hill House in p'ish
246 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
of Box in com. Wilts, gen., son and heir, Oct. 4, 1623, mar. Ann Stokes
(see above) Snell impaling Stokes ; and have issue Thos., 2nd son, mar.
Smith of Lincolnshire, obijt sine p'le ; John, 3rd son,
mar. Ann, dan. of Hort. of Martin in com. Wilts; George, 6th
son, mar. dan. of Bradshaw, ob. sine p'le; Wm, and James
4th and 5th sons, and Ann, died all unmarried ; and
Chas. Snell of Alderholt, eldest son and heir, mar dan. of
Robert Blatchford of Sandhill in com. Southam., and have issue, Ann,
eldest dan., mar Carter of Fordbridgc in com. Southam.;
Jane, wife of Clifford Hall, clerk.
Giles Gore of Alderton in com. Wilts, Esq., obijt 14 E. 4, 1474 ; mar.
Eliz., daughter and heire of John Whitokesmead ; Or, three bull's heads
eaboshed sable langued gules, impaling, Argent, a chevron between, three
birds sable ; and have a son, Thomas Gorede Aldington, alias Alderton,
Esq., obijt 22 July, 24 Hen. VIII, 1532, mar. Eliz,, dan. and coheir of
William Keynell of Yatton Keynell in com. Wilts, Esq. ; Gore, impaling,
Keynell; and have issue Thos. Gore, from whom the Gores of Great
Shcrston, now at Sopworth, are descended ; and
Giles Gore of Alderton, Esq., Eliz. 4, 1585; mar. Edith, daughter
and coheir of Julian Hall; Gore, impaling, 1 and 4, Sable, three battle
axes argent, 2 and 3, Argent, three eetpols,1 and have a son, Richd. Gore
of Aldrington, Esq., obijt. 2S Eliz.; mar. Mary, dau. of William, Lord
Stourton, by Agnes, daughter of Sir Griffith Rhese Ap Thomas, Knight,
by his wife Cath., daughter of Thos. Howard, Duke of Norfolk; Gore,
impaling, Sable, a bend between six fountains or ; and have a son, Edw.
Gore of Surrendale in com. Wilts, Esq., eldest son and heir, mar. Eliz.,
daughter of Ralph Jennings, Esq., of Churchill in com. Som. ; Gore,
impaling 1 and 4, Argent, on a Jess gules three bezants; 2 and 3, (Jules,
a bull's head eaboshed argent; and have a daughter, Eliz., 4th daughter,
mar. Wm. Bayly of Cherrington in com. Clone, Attorney-at-Law ;
Bayly, impaling, 1, Gore, 2, Argent, a lion rampant sable ; 3,
Whitokesmead; 4, Quarterly, Keynell and Hall; and have issue,
Jane, mar. Thos. Stokes {see above) ; Eliz. mar. Rowland Savage, gent. ;
Argent, six lioncels, 3, 3, /, sable, impaling, Bayly (and have issue,
Rowland Savage, gen., and Frances Savage) ; and
Wm. Bayly of Freethorn in com. Glouc, son and heir; mar. Rada-
gond, dau. of Scudamore of Kentchuich in com. Hereford, Esq.;
Bayly, impaling, (rules, three stirrups leathered proper ; and have issue,
1, Eliz., mar. George Lloyd of Whitmiuster in com. Glouc. ; 2, Dorothy;
3, Rhadagond; 4, Jane, wife of John Pri chard of .... in com. Monm.,
gen.; 5, Ann, died young; 6, Joyce, died an infant; 7, Mary, wife ol
Hay ward of Little Wendock in com. Salop, gen. ; Wm. Bayly
of Freethorn, son and heir; 2, John Bayly, died unmarried.
'Supposed by some to be coat of ATPOKD, and the charge to be as
above, or some sort of spindle.
S lakes.
The above coals were blasoncd when the writer was new
to such work, but taken as a whole the arms have been
described as they were drawn in the pedigree. Mr. F. Were,
of Gallingwood Hall, Burton-on-Trent, has kindly supplied
the following notes ; sonic other slight alterations suggested
by him have been made in the text.
Weston. Gules, on an cscochcon argent within an orlcof bezants a
fess sable.
Scrope. The bend is or.
Parker. The bordure should perhaps be charged with pellets.
Grandgorge. Papworth gives Azure, three guinea wheat cars
couped and bladed or.
Thomas Stokes, 3rd sou of Samuel Stokes, ob. Aug. 12, 1732, act. 87
{Rudder), mar. Sarah {Glouc. Vis. i&Sj), dau. of Christopher Audrewes
and relict of Alexander Dorney, Jr. {addition).
Stokes of Stanshawes Place and of Lidney, Sable, a lion rampant
double queued ermine.
Stokes of Tithcrton, Gules, a lion rampant doubled queued argent.
Papworth says the first is borne by Stokes of Mean (I Ion) Castle,
co. Pembroke. Nicholas says Roch Castle belongs to the Stokes family
but gives no pedigree, and this is confirmed by Evans in his Pembroke-
shire Church Plate.
Anne Stokes, oe Seend, 1699.1
Ind're 20 April 1690 (nth William III 1.— Anne Stoakes of Marl-
borough, spinster, and John Foster, of the same, gentleman. IVilncsscth
that in consideration of $s. in hand paid, the said Anne Stoakes hath
bargained and sold All that Messuage or Tenement and Dwelling House
with all Outhouses Orchards Gardens &c. thereto belonging together
with the Bartons &c, wherein one Joseph Allworth heretofore dwelt
And that Close of Pasture Ground called Row Croft, by estimation 40
acres, situate in Seend, in the Parish of Melksham, and now in the pos-
session of the said Anne Stoakes, together with all manner of Common
and Common of Pasture thereunto belonging, and all other the Lands
Tenements ecc. of tin- said Anne Stoakes in Seend or elsewhere in said
parish of Melksham with the reversions remainders &c. and every of
their appurtenances To hold for a year at the rent of a pepper corn (ll
demanded) To the intent that said John Foster may be in actual pos-
1 This deed came to hand too late to be printed in its proper place after
the Will of John Stokes, v, p. 451.
248 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
session, and thereby enabled to take a Grant and Release of the rever-
sion and inheritance to him and his heirs.
\Signcd\ Anne Stokes.
Sealed and delivered in the presence of Culverwell Heedler, Win.
Shepreebe.
Seal — On an anchor a heart between two wings.
(To be continued.)
TWO WILTSHIRE INDULGENCES.
Mr. James Coleman, Hon. Sec. of the Cork Archaeological
Society, in a letter informs us that Robert Macdonagh, a
Cistercian monk of great learning, consecrated Bishop of Cork
in 1277, sat for twenty-four years, dying on the 7th March
1301-2 ; in 1292 he was fined ^130 two several times for pre-
suming to hold Picas in the Ecclesiastical Courts for matters
belonging to the King's Crown, part of which was levied by-
Exchequer Process. In the year 1299 Edward I recovered
against this Prelate advowsons of several churches, the
Bishop's defence being a grant from the King, whilst he was
Prince, to Reginald, his predecessor in the See, but judgment
was given against him, because the King had no right to grant
them, his father being still alive. It seems likely that Robert
came over to plead his cause, and, being successful, visited
Maiden Bradley and granted these indulgences out of grati-
tude.
Was Maiden Bradley ever a Cistercian House? If so,
being in this country, the Bishop may have taken the oppor-
tunity of visiting various houses of this Order; it is known
that Hubert, Bishop of Salisbury, turned this Lepers' Hospital
into a hou.-e of Augustinian Canons in 1 190. At the dissolu-
tion it did not bear the best of characters, but it must be
remembered, perhaps, that the reports of the Visitors must be
suspected — they being interested parties and themselves
Two Wiltshire Indulgences.
249
not often of the best reputation. It would be interesting
to know what other connexion the Bishop had with our
county, and who Richard dc Piperharewe was— certainly a
person of some repute and sanctity. There has lately come
to view in Maiden Bradley Churchyard a large stone, said to
have been formerly at the east end of the north transept,
apparently the top slab of a coffin, on which is carved what
appears to be a large chalice and wafer;1 experts seem to say
the probable date is 1220; perhaps this may belong to
Richard's resting-place. ft
St. Finbar, or Barr (Sept. 25th), "the white-haired", was
the first Bishop of Cork in the seventh century, and is to this
day patron of the diocese and cathedral ; he founded large
schools at Coreagh-Mor, a marshy wilderness, afterwards
known as Cork. Onl}' one church in England is known to
be dedicated to him, that of Fowcy in Cornwall, the name of
the Saint being spelt as in the text.
Chancery Miscellania, Bundle 15, Xo. 6, F. 2.
[Indulgence of 40 days granted in 12S7 by Robert Bishop of Cork to
visitants of the Chapel of the Blessed Virgin in the Ptioiy of
Maiden Bradley.]
Omnibus Cliristi fidelibus ad quos presentes littcre pervenerint,
Frater Robertas die gracia Corkagensis Episcopus Salutem in Domino
Sempiternam. Gratum obsequium ct Deo pium tociens impendere
opinamur quociens mentes Christi fidelium ad pietatis et caritatis opera
excitamus. l)e Dei omnipotent is misericordia Beate semper Virginis
Marie ac Sanctissimi Fymbarry patroni nostri omniumque sanctorum
patrociniis Spem firmam liabentes omnibus parochianis iiostris et aliis
quorum diocesani hanc nostram ratam habuerint indttlgenciam qui de
peccatis suis vere contriti fuerint et confessi qui ad capellam gloriose
Virginis Marie Prioratus de Meydenebradelegh devocionis oracionis sen
peregriuaciotiis causa accesserint et misse ejusdem Virginis decctero
celebrande ibidem intertuerint vel ut lionestius sustentetur de bonis
sibi a deo collatis aliqua caritatis subsidia contulerint scu transmiserint,
1 In 15104, when the stone was bud bare, many were of this opinion, but
on closer inspection the more favourable view of the device is, a shield,
charged with a crescent and a star or sun, hanging on a cros>.
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
quadraginta dies de injuncta sibi penitencia misericorditcr relaxamus.
In cujus rei testimonium presentes litteras sigilli nostri apposicione
roboratis fieri fecimus perpetue duraturas. Datum apud Meydenebrade-
legh die Sancti Germani Coniessoris mense Julii Anno gracie M° CCC
Octogesimo septimo.
Chancery Miscellania, Bundle 15, No. 6, F. 3.
{Indulgence granted in /.?<?-? by Robert Bishop of Cork 0/20 days to per-
sons coming to tJic Priory Church of Afadcubradlcy and saying for
the soul of Richard de Pificrharewe, buried in the churchyard there,
the Pater nosier with the salutation of the Blessed Virgin.]
Omnibus Christi fidelibus presentes litteras visuris vel audituris
Frater Robertus dei gracia Corkagensis Episcopus Salutem in Domino
Sempiternam. Ut ex deprecacione Vivorum dormientes in Cliristo se
senciant relevatos ipsique vivent.es per labores quos in carne gesserint,
remissionis graciam super commissis iuveniant salutarem. Pro excita-
cionis gracia devocionem fidelium per allectiva indulgenciarum munera
ad orandum libencius invitamus. De Dei igitur omnipotentis miseri-
cordia beatissime Marie Virginis Genetricis ejusdem et beati Fym-
barry patroni nostri omniumque Sanctorum meritis confidentes omni-
bus parochianis nostris et aliis quorum Diocesani liauc nostram
indulgenciam ratam habuerint de peccatis suis vere contritis et confessis,
qui ad ecelesiam PrioratUS de Meydenbradelcgh devote accesserint et
pro anima Ricardi de Piperharewe cujus corpus in Cimeterio predicte
ecclcsie tumulatum requiescit necnon et pro animabus omnium fidelium
defunctorum, oracionem dominicam cum salutacione beatc et precelce
Dei genitricis Marie dixerint p[ia] mente viginti dies de injuncta sibi
penitentia misericorditer relaxamus. In cujus rei fidem et testimonium
presentes litteras impressione sigilli nostri fecimus communiri, Datum
apud Meydenebradeleygh die dominica in crastino Sancti Marci
Evangeliste, Anno gracie M° CC° Nonagesimo secundo.
QUAKERISM IN WILTSHIRE.
BURIALS.
(Continued from f 23 1.)
G.
1760-2-2S. — At Warminster, Marg* Gardiner, of Warminster,
vviddow of Wm. Gardiner, age 75.
1760-S-24. — At Bromham, Deter Gee, of Broomiiam, son of
John Gcc.
Quakerism in Wiltshire. 251
1761 . — At Calne, John Grundy.
1 761-9- 1 4.— At Calne, John Gundry, of Calstone.
1761-10- 1 5. — At Chippenham, Sarah Gouldney, of Chippenham.
♦1766-2 — . — [BuriedJ at Comerwell, Nathaniel Grant, of
Bradford.
*i 769-4-30. — [Buried] at Calne, W21 Fry Gundry, of Calne,
son of William and Katherine Gundry.
1 770- 1 1-7.— At Melksham, Hannah Galtox, late of Bristol,
died at Holt, widow of Robert Galton.
1771- 2-3. — At Calne, George Grant, of Calne.
*i773-io — . — [Buried] at Calne, Hester Grant, widdow of
George Grant.
377 ;-S- 1 7. — At Calne, Betty Gregory, of Compton Basset.
1782-3-1. — At Broomham, William Gee, of Bromham, age 86.
1782- 3-10. — At Broomham, Stephen Gee, age S4.
1783- 3-9. — At Lavington, Edward Gye, of Lavington, bachelor,
age 59-
17SS-1-27. — At Calne, Joseph Gundry, parents at Calne, son
of Peter Gundry, age 2 years. N.M.
17SS-3-30. — At Tithcrton, Hannah Gixgel, of Bowden, nr.
Laycock, co. of Wilts, wife of James
Gingel, age 60.
17SS-9-27. — At Calne,' Ann Gundry, parents nr. Calne, Quem-
erford Common, dau. of Peter Gundry,
age 2 months. N.M.
17S9-9-27. — At Calne, Sarah Gundry, parents at Calne, dau.
of William and Katherine Gundry, age 8.
17S9-1 1-22. — At Calne, Martha Gundry, of Calne, co. of Wilts,
dau. of Win. and Katherine Gundry, age 20.
1792- 11-6. — At Melksham, Betty Gregory, of .Melksham, co.
of Wilts, a Minister, age 60.
1793- S-4.— At Calne, Catherine Gundry, junr., of Calne, co. of
Wilts, dau. of William and Catherine
Gundry, age 19.
1794- 9-21.— At Calne, WU1 Gundry, of Calne, co. Wilts, age 60.
1 796-9-14. — At Devizes, Letitia Gilkes, of Devizes, co. of Wilts,
dau. of Rich"1, and Letitia Gilkes, age 18.
1795- 1-12. — At Devizes, Priscilla Gilkes, parents at Devizes,
co. of Wilts, dau. of Rich'1 and Letitia
Gilkes, age 12.
252 Wiltshire Nolcs and Queries.
1 801- 1 0-7. — At Devizes, Phebe Gilkes, of Devizes, co. of Wilts,
dau. of Rich1' and Lctitia Gilkes, age 20.
1802- 6-13. — At Calne, Samuel Gundry, of Calnc, eo. of Wilts,
grocer, age 29.
1802-10-24.— At Devizes, Sarah Gilbert, of Devizes, co. of
Wilts, widow, age 81.
1804-2-3.— At Calne, Catherine Gundry, of Calnc, co. of
Wilts, widow, age 67.
1S08-3-7. — At Calne, Peter Gundry, of Quemerford, nr. Calnc,
co. of Wilts, age 64.
1809-10-6.— At Calne, Sarah Gundry, of Quemerford, co. of
Wilts, widow of Peter Gundry, age 66. N.M.
18 1 3-2-2 1. — At Broomham, Ann Gary, of Chittoe, co. of
Wilts, wife of |as Gaby, farmer, age 68.
N.M.
1837-4-26. — At Calne, Anna Gundry, of Calne, co. of Wilts,
dau. of Joseph Fry and Martha Gundry,
age 34-
H.
1 70 1 - 1- 1 5. — At Comcrwell, Martha Hall, of Bradford ph.,
wife of Joseph I Jail.
"1701-8-—. — Edith Hudden, of Melksham, wife of John
Hudden.
1702-3-20. — Thomas Henly, of Brinkworth.
*i7o2-/-22. — Ann Millard, of Fovent.
*'i 703-1 2-4. — Jeane Harris, of Goadaccr, ph. of Brimhill,
widow.
* 1 706-6- 1 5. — Sarah Harris, of Tytherton, wife of John Harris.
706-7-3. — Sarah Holoway, of Tytherton, ph. of Brimhill,
wife of Stephen Hoioway.
* i 708-1 2-23. — Elizabeth Hull, of Frankly, ph. of Bradford,
dau. of Joseph and Ann Hull.
*'i 709/10-1 1-16. — Geoarg Hillier, senr., of Avon, ph. of
Christian Malford, son of Ann Hillier.
*i 7 1 ! 1 — Rachel 1 1 arris, of Chippenham, dau. of Thomas
and Alice 1 1 arris.
1 7 1 1-1-9. —James Hadges, of Warminster.
lVlS'23- — Thomas Harris, of Chippenham, son of Thomas
and Alice 1 1 arris.
1711-10-29. — John Harris, of Goatacre, a Minister.
Quakerism in Wiltshire.
253
* 17,11-11-14. — Ann Hancock, of Broomham, widdow.
* 1 7 1 2-9- 1 9. — Jane Hutchings, of Miles Kington, wife of
Nathaniel Hutchings.
*i'7i3-i 1-1. — Jane Hopkins, of Quindenten, wife of Nathaniel
1 lopkins.
1 7 14-1 1-9.— At Warminster, Cherith Hodges, of Warminster,
wife of John Hodges.
*i 7 1 5-6-1. — Henry Hopkins, of Sarum, son of Nathaniel
Hopkins.
*i 7 15-6- 1 2. — James Hopkins, of Sarum, son of Nathaniel
Hopkins.
* 1 7 1 5-S-7. — John Hillard, of Broomham.
* 1 72 1 — . — Jane Hand, of Pickwick, ph. of Corsham, wife
of John Hand.
•1721-7-2. — Greace Hand, of Charlcot Meeting.
•1723-12-17. — Ann Huse, of Brimhill.
1724-2-S. — At Warmister, John Hodges.
•1724-3-25. — John Hand, of Pickwick, ph. of Corsham.
*i729 . — John Hobbs.
1732-11-23. — Thomas Harris, of Chippenham.
*i 732-12- 1 9. — Ben Hale.
* 1 733-1 2-24. — Ann Hull, wife of Joseph Hull, a Minister.
1734- 12-21. — Bethiah Hawkins, of Pickwick, wife of Richard
Hawkins.
1735- 6-6. — Martha Hayward, of Chippenham, dan. of Widow
Neate.
1 735-1 2-20. --At Pickwick, Richard Hawkins, late of Pickwick,
ph. of Corsham, died at Bath.
•1736-5-9. — Elizabeth Hobbs, of Warminster.
* 1 736- 12-15. — Elizth Hull, dau. of Joseph Hull.
* 1 736-1 2-23. — Mary Hook, of Brinkworth.
1737- 7-15. — At Chippenham, James Hobbs, of Laycock.
•1737-8-3. — Ann Hull, of Frankly, dau. of Joseph Hull.
1738- 5-2. — At Chippenham, John Hayward, of Cast'1 in
Corsham.
*i 738- 1 1 -29.— George Hillier, of Avon.
1 739- 1 1-27. — -\t Bunhill Fields, London, Thomas Hull, died
in London, son of Jos. Hull, of Frankly.
1740- 4-7. — Martha Harwood, of Slauterford, wife of Solomon
Harwood.
254
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
1 74 1-3 — . — Sarah Harris, of Maribro, wife of Jeremiah
Harris.
1 741-4-3. — Deborah Hunt, of Bromham [Chitto].
*i 742-6-1 5. — Sarah Hunt, of Chalrield, dau. of Thomas Hunt.
'74 2-7-2. — Sarah Henly, of Purton.
*i 742-10-2 1. — John Hall, of Charlcot
1743-4-9. — At Melksham, Sarah Harris, of Melksham.
*i 743- 1 1-1 1. — Rebeca Hobbs, of Cain.
1743-1 1- 1 5.— At Chippenham, Rebecca Hobbs, of Cain, widow.
* 1 744-5- 1 6. — Sarah Hunt, dau. of Thomas and Mary Hunt.
^1744-12-21. — Henry Hunt, of Broamham.
* 1744/5- 1 2-2 1. — Henry Hunt, of Bromham.
1745-6-23. — At Conierwell, Joseph Hull, of Frankley.
1745- 7-17. — Mary Hunt, of Bromham, widow of Henry Hunt.
* 1 745-7-19. — Mary Hunt, of Broamham, widow of Henry
Hunt.
1746- 2-S. — At Warminster, Rachel Hodges, of Warminster,
widow.
1746- 8-1 1.— At Melksham, Thomas Hunt, of Chalfield.
* 1747-5-29. — [Buried] at Shortwood, Amariah Heydon, son
of Samuel Heydon.
1747- S-6. — At Chippenham, Mary Hartland, of Chippenham,
widow.
*i749-i-29. — Thos Hunt, of Bromham, son of Tho* and Mary
Hunt.
1753-1-12. — At Bromham, William Hunt, of Bromham.
1753-12-2. — At Chippenham, Elizabeth Harris, of Chippen-
ham, wife of John Harris.
1755-1-1. — At Slaughter ford, Solomon I Iarwood, of Slaughter-
ford.
*i 75 7-2-5. — William Hint, of Bromham [Whitham], son of
William and Ann Hunt.
1 760-S-27.— At Bromham, Henry Hunt, of Roud, was killed
with a horse at Bradford Leigh fair, son of
Thomas and Mary Hunt.
•1764-8-29. — [Buried] at Sarum, Oliver Hayhurst, of Wilton,
an ancient Friend, formerly a clothier of
Melksham, age 6o or 85.
Norman Penney.
(To be continued.)
Peculiars of the Dean and Chapter of Sarum. 255
PECULIARS OF THE DEAN AND CHAPTER OF
SARUM.
{Continued from p. 224.)
Gibbon, Nicolas, of Lyme Regis, medicus, & Amy
Cleaver, of East Coker, Somerset ; B'dman, Ralph Pre win,
of Lyme Regis, merchant. Two coats: 1, A lion rampant ;
2, A chevron between three roundels) 7 Feb. 1673/4.
Car}', George, jun., of Glastonbury, Somt., hosier, &
Rebekah Taylor, d. of Thomas Taylor, of Lyme Regis,
Dorset ; B'dman, Thomas Taylor, of Lyme Regis, merchant.
Seal. Arm : 1 and 4, Three escallops in pale, 2, Twobarrulets
in chief three escallops, 3, Three arrows in pale.
Haltett, Daniel, & Hannah Hallett, both of Netherbury,
Dorset; B'dman, Henry Wcy, of the same, yeo. ; 30 June
1674.
Clacee, Anthony, of Knooke, Wilts, yco.,&Joane Turner,
of Little Durneford, sp. ; B'dman, John Batt, of the same,
yeo. ; 30 July 1674.
Doverdalc, Thomas, elarke, of Ogborne St. Andrew,
Wilts, & Deborah Carter, of Marlborough, sp. ; B'dman,
Robert Clements, of Ogborne St. George, clarke ; 27 Aug.
1674.
Parmitcr, John, of Preston, Dorset, yeo., & Magdalen
Nossiter, of the same, wid. ; B'dman, Richard Eyres, of the
same, yeo. ; 1 Oct.
Barber, William, of Combe Bissett, yeo., & Ellenior
Hayter, of the Close, sp. ; B'dman, John Bennett, of Sarum,
gen. ; 14 Nov.
Mortimer, John, of Calne, Wilts, malster, & Joane
Robbison, als. H unt, of Calne ; B'dman, Robert Mortimer,
of the same, yeo. ; 23 Nov.
Marten, John, of Shcrvill, co. South., husb., & Elizabeth
Bowles, of Bramshaw, co. South.; B'dman, Willm. Marten,
of Whiteparish, blacksmith ; 17 Nov. 1674.
256 Wiltshire Notes and Queries:
Wren, Nicholas, of Ogborne St. Andrews, & Mary
Shippry, of the same, sp. ; B'dman, John Horner (undated).
Dudman, Henry, of Burbage, Wilts, blacksmith, & Sicely
Johnsons, of Manningford, Wilts, sp. ; B'dman, John
Johnsons, of North Newnton, Wilts ; Wit., Richd. Cherry,
Edmund Morse; 4 Dec. 1674.
Hill, Osmund, of Meere, Wilts, barber, & Mellior Coward,
of the same, sp. ; B'dman, John Coward, of Merc, hosier;
1 1 Jan. 1674/5.
Stoakes, Christopher, of Tytherton, Wilts, gen., & Jane
Stonchowse, of Hungerford, Wilts, sp. ; B'dman, Michael
Wyse, of the Close, Sarum, gen. ; 15 Feb. 1674/5.
Russell, James, of Sarum, joyner, & Joane Hatcheman,
of Netheravon, Wilts ; 19 Jan. 1674/5.
Bayly, Anthony, of Hampton Turvill, in I Iighworth, yeo.,
& Martha Humphries, of H igh worth ; B'dman, Richard
Humphries, of Westropp, in H igh worth • 21 Oct. 1674.
Kent, Samuel, of Bishopston, Wilts, yeo., & Catherine-
Row, of Fernham in Shrivenham ; 16 Aug. 1674 ; B'dman,
John Purton, of the same, yeo. ; Wit., Thos. Derham, Eliz.
Derham.
Selby, William, of Broad Blunsdon in Highworth, &
Jane Gearing, of Stratton, Wilts ; B'dman, William Benja-
min, a/s. Gabbat, of Blunsdon, yeo. ; 24 June 1674.
Loveden, Christopher, of Buscot, Berks, gener., & Mary
Bennet; B'dman, John Leader, of I Iighworth, Wilts, glasier ;
27 May 1674. Seal, Arm: A bend between four hands. [?]
Bruno, Charles, of Plumber, eo. Dorset, ar., & Jane Colic t,
of Sherborne, one of the daughters of Henry Colicr, late of
Hermitage, Dorset, Esqr. ; B'dman, John Williams, jun., of
Sherborne, gen. Seal, Arm : 1 and 4, A millrind ' ; 2 and 3,
Fretty ermine and argent. Crest : A stag at gaze, on an
Esquire's helmet; 16 Dec. 1674.
Arden, Anthony, of Sherborne, Dorset, & Elizabeth Tapp,
of Yeavell, Somt., wid. ; B'dmen, Oliver Arden and David
Claydon, of Yeavell ; 16 Nov. 1674.
Peculiars of the Dean and Chapter of Sarum. 257
Pitman, William, & Jane Penney, both of Sherborne,
Dorset ; B'dman, Richard Vinsent, of- the same. Two
Seal 1 , Arm : A ragged staff between two leaves, barwise ;
Seal 2, 1 and 4, A lion rampant; 2 and 3, Three stars, crescent
for difference ; 1 8 Aug. 1674.
Ilett, Thomas, & Johana Pope, of Caundle Marsh, gen.,
dau. of John Pope; B'dman, John Pope; 9 Nov. 1674.
St. Barbe, Francis, of the Close. Sarum, gen., & Grace
Butler, of Folke, Dorset, sp., 25; B'dman, Thos. Hoddinet,
of Sherborne, inholder ; 4 July 1674.
Hellowes, Richard, of Reading, Berks, merchant, &
Elizabeth Palgrave, of Arberfield, wid. ; B'dman, George
Hatton, of the same, goldsmith ; 2$ Jan. 1674.
Pyther, Sebastian, of Arberfield, Berks, yeo., & Elizabeth
Macknemarra, of Swallowfield, Berks, wid. ; B'dman,
Thomas Brush, of the same, yeo. ; 4 Apr.
Markham, Willm., of Hurst, co. Berks, husb., & Mary
Coxe, of Arberfield, sp. ; B'dman, Richard Stanniford, of
Hurst, husb. ; Wit., Isabel Stanniford, Alexander Stokes;
30 May 1674.
Haskett, John, of Knowle, Dorset, marriner, & Dorothy
Bessant, of Winterborne Kingston, Dorset, sp. ; B'dman,
William Besant, of the same, smith ; 20 Jul}' 1675.
Munday, Richard, of Ogborr.e St. Andrews, tayler, &
Sarah Waldron, of the same; B'dman, Joseph Walrond ;
27 Oct. 1675.
Pile, George, of Wilsford, Wilts, yeo., & Elizabeth
Cunditt, of Little Durneford; B'dman, Wm. Dawkins, senr.,
of the same, miller ; 7 Aug.
Dew, Willm., husb., 5c Mary Baverstock, sp., both of
SwallowclitT, Wilts; B'dmen, Matthew Baverstock, of Nor-
rington, Wilts, husb., WHlra. Baverstock, of SwallowclifT,
husb. ; 4 Sept.
Sherville, Thomas, of Sunninge, Berks, architect, & Mary
Loosely, of Purton, co. Oxon., sp. ; B'dman, Thomas
Loosely, of Thame, Oxon., husb.
s
WilisJiire Noles and Queries.
Millard, Willm., of St. Giles, Reading, co. Berks, mer-
chant, & Anne Carter, of Sunninge, Berks, sp. ; B'dman,
Robert Buckeridge, of the same, tailor; 21 Apr.
Powell, Henry, of Sarum, Wilts, cutler, & Elizabeth Starr,
of the Close, sp. ; B'dman, John Powell, gen., junr. ; 3 Apr.
1675-
Palmer, Thomas, of Coombc Bissett, husb., & Frances
Brine, of the same, wid. ; B'dman, Henry Chubb, of the
same, maulster; 2.1 A pi*. 1675.
Gibbs, Samuel, of Westbuiw, clothier, & Edith Stubbs, of
Highworth, sp. ; 'B'dmen, John Pryor, of Edington, clothyer,
John Chubb, of the Close, yeo. ; 30 Apr. 1675.
Bishop, John, of Chilcombe, co. Dorset, gen., & Margaret
Foyle, of Chiutc, Wilts, sp. ; B'dman, Robert Ironside, of
Briddy in Burton, Dorset, gen. ; 16 June 1675.
Clarke, John, of Durnford, Wilts, hush., & Mary Fox, of
Woodford, sp. ; 21 June 1675.
Shadwcll, Mathew, of Meeie, Wilts, cordwinder, & Eliza-
beth Earbury, of the same, sp. ; B'dmen, Osmund Hill, of
Mere, barber-chirurgeon, and Willm. Shadwell, of Sarum,
cutler ; 13 July 1675.
Whitlock, Anthony, junior, & Ruth Bullen, of Folk,
Dorset; B'dmen, Anthony Whitlock, senr., and John
Noake, of Milborne, Somerset ; 7 Feb. 1675.
Marline, Stephen, of Sherborne, Dorset, & Sarah Partridge,
of the same; B'dmen, John Marline and John Partridge, oi
the same. Seal, Arm: On a lozenge a cross bottonny]
1 1 Oct. 1675.
Andro, Baptist, & Mary Potter ; B'dman, Willm. Potter,
of Uficulme, Devon, yeo. ; 19 Jan. 1675/6.
Lloyd, John, of Bristol, lynncn draper, junr., & Hannah
Home, of West Harneham ; B'dman, John Home, of
Bristol, lynnen draper; 17 June 1676.
Chamberlaine, John, of Sarum, chirurgeon, & Dulcebella
Payne, of the Close, Sarum, wid. ; B'dman, Walter Pope, ol
Sarum, clothier; 29 July 1676.
Peculiars of the Dean and Chapter of Sarum. 259
Harris, James, of Edington, Wilts, cl'icus, & Deborah
Lambert, of the Close, Sarum, sp. ; B'dman, John Lambert,
of Willingale Doe, Essex, gener. Lambert, arm., seals : On
a bend engrailed three annulets between two leopards rampant.
Crest : A griffin [?] ; 1 Aug. 1676.
Ireland, Walter, of Sarum, vintner, & Elizabeth Year-
bury, of Merc, Wilts, sp. ; B'dman, James Ely, of Sarum,
brewster ; 26 Aug.
Tidcombe, Richard, of Calnc, Wilts, husb., & Sibill
Browne, of Cherril, Wilts, sp. ; B'dman, John Witemarshe,
of Sarum, inholder ; 25 Sept.
Rowse, John, of Whithford, eo. Warwick, yeo., & Abigail
Humfries, of Highworth, Wilts ; B'dman, Richard Humfries,
of Westropp, Wilts, yeo. ; 18 Sept.
Tichenor, William, of Marston, in Highworth, Wilts, &
Anne Leader, of the same ; B'dman, Wm. Mathewes, of
Highworth, tailor; 16 July.
Martin, Michael, of Chestleton [Chisledon], Wilts, &
Martha Buckle; B'dman, Humphry Rivers, of Wanting,
ats. Wantage, Berks; 11 Dec. 1675.
Singleton, Thomas, of Binfield, Berks, husb., & Man-
Bay ley, of Wood ley, in Sunning, Berks, sp. ; B'dman,
Thos. Parran, of the same; 19 Jan. 167 5/6.
Knight, Henry, of Reading, Berks, bellfounder, &
Susanna Westmorland, of Bullmarsh, in Sunning, Berks, sp.;
B'dman, Francis Knight, of Reading, maulster; 10 May 1676.
Jemmatt, Walter, of Shiplock, co. Oxon., yeo., & Mary
Rose, of Sunning, Berks, sp. ; B'dman, John Rose, of
Sunning, Berks, yeo.; 27 Mar. 1676.
Keat, Richard, of Ley, Dorset, & Joane Masters, of
Holnest, d. of George Masters, of Nether Compton, Dorset ;
B'dman, George Browne, of Sherborne. Seal, Arm : Barry
of eight argent and gules, over all a bend or; 19 June 1676.
Butler, Charles, of Bishopston, Wilts, yeo., & Mary
Caisic, of Liddington; B'dman, Edward Bayly, of High-
worth, yeo. ; 5 June.
s 2
260 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Whitmarsh, Timothy, of Woodford Magna, wheeler, &
Margery Rattew, of Durnford, Wilts, sp. ; B'dman, George
Allen, of Sarum, butcher ; 24 Feb. 1676 7.
Andrewes, Walter, of Bristol, grocer, & Anne Mussel], of
the Close, Sarum, wid. ; B'dman, Roger Bedbury, of Sarum,
Wilts, inholder ; 9 May 1677.
Segrum, Edward, of Mere, Wilts, lynnen weaver, 6c
Deborah Albin, of the same, sp. ; B'dman, William White,
of West Knoyle, gen. ; 23 May.
Web, John, of Child ry, Berks, gen., & Presilla Brooks, of
Wanting, Berks, sp. ; B'dman, Richard Web, of Wanting;
4 Dec. 1676.
Castle, William, of East Hendred, Berks, yeo., <K: Anne
Band, of the same, sp. ; B'dman, Robert Belcher, of Arling-
ton Wick, Berks, yeo. ; 19 Feb. 1676.
Ambrose, Charles, of East Ilsey, Berks, gen., & Mary
Humfries, of Wanting. Berks, sp. ; B'dman, Jeff. Maismorc,
of the same, grocer ; 25 Feb. 1676/7.
Carter, Thomas, of St. Pulchers [?], London, turner, &
Mar}' Doe, of Wanting, sp. ; B'dman, Rich. Reynols, of the
same ; 20 Nov. 1676.
Bath, Thomas, of Fifield, Berks, husb., & Jane Doulton,
of Letcombe Regis, sp. ; B'dman, John Belcher, of Wantage,
glover ; 10 Oct. 1676.
Freer, Daniel, of Wanting, Berks, cler. parochial, &
Margaret Sylvester, of the same, sp. ; B'dman, Thomas
Fewtrell, of the same, taylor ; 2$ Sept. 1676.
Jennings, Samuel, of Wanting, Berks, & Patience Pocock,
of the same ; B'dman, Joel Pocock, of the same ; 2 Sept.
1676.
Frogley, Alexander, of Wantinge, Berks, cloathvvorker, &
Mary Young, of Bexford, Berks, sp. ; B'dman, John Frogley,
of Wanting, cloathworker ; 3 June 1676.
E. R. Nevill.
(To be continued.)
Notes on North Newnton Churchwardens' Accounts. 261
NOTES ON THE CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS OF
THE PARISH OF NORTH NEWNTON, WILTS.
North Newnton, or Newington, is a small parish (with
the tything of Ililcot annexed) in the Hundred of Swan-
borough, Diocese of Salisbury, Archdeaconry of Wilts, and
Rural Deanery of Avebury (Second portion).
The Churchwardens' Accounts, from which these notes
have been gleaned, were for many years in private possession ;
but, falling into the hands of the present writer, they are
again restored to the parish to which they belong.
The}- commence in the year 1576, and are interesting as
showing how — by the help of a church ale, and a church
flock — the'parishioners of North Newnton managed to defray
their church expenses in the time of Queen Elizabeth.
The Inventory of the Churche goodes of Northencwnton
taken before the whole parishioners the seconde of October
1576:—
Inp'mis one Surpcles.
It'm iij olde Table Cloathes.
It'monc Rochett for the Clarke.1
It'm a Carpett or covering of blewe tor the Table.2
It'm on Cloathe for the fonte.
It'm a Bottle to fetche and keepe wyne.
Item one Cloth of silke for the pulpitt.
It. a Com'union cup with a cover/'
1 The Rochet {Rnchetta) was a surplice without sleeves, anciently
worn by the Deacon who assisted at the Mass, but continued after the
Reformation (in this instance) as a rohe for the Clerk.
2 The Advertisements of A.D. 15(54 require that the Communion Table
shall be covered with a carpet, silk, or other decent covering.
3 All Church plate and bells beyond the quantity actually required for
the performance of Divine service having been seized by the Crown under ;i
Commission dated 3 March 1553, one Chalice and paten is all the plate
usually met with in Inventories of this period. Tin- "bottle to fetch and
keep wine", mentioned in a former item, was probably a sort of pilgrim's
flask or bottle of pewter, in which it. was customary to keep the wine, and
also to bring it to the Communion table.
262
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
A second Inventory, apparently a little later, shows the
discontinuance both of the Clerk's rochet and the cloth for the
font :—
Inp'mis one Surples.
It'm ij old Table clothes.
It'm a carpet or coveriiige ol blewe.
It'm a bottell to fetche wine.
It'm a Silver cuppe and a plate of silver.
It'm a pott to bringe wine to the Com'union Table.'
It'm a newe Carpet for the Com'union Table.
„ a Clothe and Quesshion for the pulpitt.
,, one table Clothe of holland.
It'm j greate Caldron2 [sould) \
It'm j greate Broache (sould) r at the farme.
It'm a little Bell price vj>. \\\)d. at \\\]d. a lb. *J
The Inventorye of the Churche Bookes of Northenewnton,
Anno 1576, the Seconde of November : —
1. Inp'mis a Byble in a large volume.
2. 3. It'm the ij Tomes of Homelyes in two volumes.
4. It'm the Psalter.
5. The Homelye againste disobedience and vvilfull rebellion.
6. The Paraphrase of Erasmus vppon the Epistles [Gospels].*
7. A Com'union booke in a large volume.
8. A register for marriage, baptizme, and burialls.
9. A forme of Prayer to be vsed againste the invasion of the Turke.
1 This seems to refer to a tlagon (probably of pewter) which had super-
seded the bottle desciibed in the previous note.
2 The '-great caldron" and "broach" arc evidently the boiler and spit
which had belonged to the Church House. "In every parish," says Aubrey,
"is, or was, a church house, to which belonged spits, crocks, etc., utensils
for dressing provision. Here the housekeepers met, and were merry, and
gave their charity."
3 This bell, weighing ninety-three pounds, was perhaps the ancient
Sancte bell belonging to the Church, an example of which is still remaining
in its original cot on the east gable of the nave at Kcevil.
1 The largest volume of the whole Bible, and the Paraphrase of Erasmus,
both in English, were ordered by the Injunctions of Edward VI in 1547, and
again by those of Queen Elizabeth in 1551), and were to be read by the
parishioners "out of the time of common service". They were usually
chained to a sort of desk or lectern, as at Westbury, where is ill preserved
a copy of the latter volume.
Notes on North Newnton Churchicardcus 1 Accounts. 263
10. A forme of com'on prayer to be used on Wednesdayes duringe
the tyme of mortalitye and other afflictions.
11. A Booke of Advertisements.1
12. Articles for the avoidinge of diversities of opinions and for con-
sente touchinge religion, 1562.-
13. Articles to [be] enquired in the Metropolicall Visitac'on oi the
reuerende father in God Matthevve [Parker] Archebysliopp of Caunter-
burye.
14. Injunctions gyven by the reuerende father in God, John,
Bysshoppe ofSar'.3
15. It'm Injunctions geaven by the Queue's Ma'tie.*
16. An Exposic'ou vppon the fyvth Chapters.
17. Cannons set out by the Kinge's Ma'tie.
It'm an old Communion.
[Ite' ij newe bookes th'one for the 5 of August and th'other lor the
5 of November touchinge praise and thankesgyvinge for Kinge James
happie Deliverance. In a later hand.]
Then follows the Churchwardens' annual account of re-
ceipts and expenditure, commencing in 1576. when the out-
going Churchwardens, " Edwarde Lavington and Edwarde
Elizander [Alexander] the younger ", duly rendered their
account' in the presence of the Parishe on the 2 November,
and "yealded upp " to their successors — William and Richard
Lavington—the sum of 7^4 1 15. icd. in the " Churche Boxc".
In the following year (1577) is :
"The accumpte of William Lavingeton and Richard Lavington
yeaven vp in the p'sence of the Parisshioners of Xevvnton the secunde
daye of November, as lollowethe : —
1 " Advertisements partly for the due Order in the Publick Administra-
tion of the Holy Sacraments, and partly for the Apparel of all Persons
Ecclesiastical." Anno 15(31 (7 Elizabeth).
2 "Articles whereupon it was agreed by the Archbishops and Bishops
of both provinces; and the whole Cleargie, in the Convocation holder) at
London in the yeare of our Lord fiod 1562, according to the Computation
of the Churche of England, for the avoyding of the diversities of opinions,
and for the stablishing of consent touching true Religion. Put fuorth by
the Queene's Authoritic." Editions of it were printed in 1563, 1593, 1603,
and 1G12.
3 Injunctions of John Jewel, Bishop of Salisbury L560-71.
4 "Injunctions given by the Queen's Majesty concerning both the
Clergy and Laity of this Realm." Anno 1559 (1 Elizabeth).
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Inprimis a Communion booke ... ... ... \)s. v'rijd.
It'm laidc owte at th' archedeacon's courte at Marle-
borroughe ... ... ... ... ... xvjd.
It'm laidc owte for breade and wyne at sondrye tymes iij^. \d.
It'm at t he Bysshopp of Canterbury his visitac'on o'r
expenses1 ... ... ... ... ... xvj^.
It'm o'r other Charges at ye same tyme ... ... xiijrtf.
It'm to the Paynter for paintinge ye Churche ... xx.y.
It'm for half a Busshell of Lyme ... ... ... \\\]d.
It'm a Booke of Articles ... ... ... ... \]d.
It'm a Bottle ... ... ... ... ... xx\]d.
Som of expenses laide owte by the Churchwardens aforesaide
XXXvjj. \}d.
The manner in which this outlay was met is explained in
the next five items, which contain the receipts for the year.
"The foresaide Churchwardens made vp and reconncd as
followithe" :—
Inp'mis at an ale ... ... ... ... ... x\]s.
It'm a Com'union booke solde ... ... ... ijj-.
It'm the mony for breade and wyne ... ... \\]s. x]d.
It'm for an olde shcepe ... ... ... ... iijj. iiijrt'.
It'm for woole iiij lb, ... ... ... ... ijs. xujd.
Two years later we have the account of John Rynge and
Matthew Chandler, taken 2 Nov. 1579. It consists chiefly of
small sums of money lent to various parishioners for the term
of a year, out of the church stock. Matthew Chandler
(apparently a maltster) is to supply two bushels of malt at the
next Whitsuntide towards the Church Ale :—
Inprimis of the Churche money in t lie hands of James
Rawkyns to be paed at the next accompte ... x\s.
It. in the hands of William Ringe to be paed as afore-
saide ... ... ■ ... ... ... ... x\s.
Item w'h Mathewe Chaundler to be paed as aforesaide x\s.
It. w'h Mathewe Chaundler to be paed at Whitsouucty
de next in Mault ... ... ... ... ijubz.
It. w'h Mathewe Chaundler for yj//. of woolle to be p'd
at the next accompte ... ... ... ... vj$.
1 Query was this Visitation made by Archbishop Grindal in person,
and where was it held ? The P;iri>h licgister oT Alluanniugs refera to two
other Archbishop's Visitations held at Devizes in 1G10 and 1G13.
Notes on NortJi Newnton Churchwardens' Accounts. 265
It. Rob'te Mundie for bredd and wyne
It. Thorn's Higgins for bredd and wyne
It. lefte in tire Chnrche boxe
\\}d.
iij/z. vs. x'yi.
In the account of John Elizaunder and William Ryngc,
in 1583, the names of the sureties for persons holding moneys
belonging to the Church stock arc also given. Thomas
Higgins, who borrows 105. without surety, is to pay it at the
next account day, otherwise the Churchwardens to enter his
Cowleazc for the space of one year next following. Eventu-
ally, in the 3'ear 1600, Higgins having become defaulter to the
amount of 13s., pays 35. ^d. in hand, and the parishioners then
present at the Church reckoning agree to release him of the
remainder of his debt.
The Church stock, besides money thus let out in small
sums by the year, seems to have consisted of a number of
sheep, also let out to certain parishioners to keep from year
to year. In 1584 we have this item : —
Delivt. vnto Will'm Ringe iiij yewes & a chilver tege to keepe on'
yeare savinge halfe the lames & halfe the u-oolle.
The accounts for several subsequent years contain
similar entries. In 1591 William Ringe receives, besides the
five ewes, "two hogges, and a wether sheepe", the former to
be kept for the wool, and the latter for the sum of 6s. .\d. In
1592 he again has five ewes and "one hogge to keepe for all
the woole". Two years later is a payment to Edward
Rawkins of .\s. for "a wether hogge".
After the Church reckoning in 1589, and the delivery of
the five ewes to William Lavington, the sum of £z 1 is. (jd. is
left in the Church box, and three ewes to sell. In 1593 there
is the sum of "to lett " — out of which sum William Ringe
and Morrice Oram have 44s. each.
In 1599 are the two following items : —
Rec'd of Edward Johnson for a bag of wheate ...
The farm' oweth for his lathers burial! ... ... vj*. v\\jd.
The item "gathered vyf. a yard landcs" in 1600 amounted
266
to the sum of £i 2s. 6d. In 1609 the sum of 11s. is re-
ceived of the farm for a bell — probably the one noted in the
Inventory of 1576, but increased in value. The fee of 6s. 8d.
again occurs for "burying of Mrs. Bacon in the Church".
In 161 S there is the following agreement between the
Churchwardens and a Marlborough plumber for the repair of
the leads of the Church : —
Be it knowne vnto all men that I, Richard ffrancklen, of Marlberrow,
in the countie of Wiltcs, plomer and glesseire, doe by this p'sent writ-
inge acknowledge my selfe to keepe in reparation the ledes of the
Chnrche and Tovvre of Northnewnton at the cost and charges of the
said Richard ffrancklen duringe the corse of his natural! life for two
shilliiiges the yeare, duly payed vnto the said Richard ffrancklen by the
Churchwardens. And farther, the said Richard shall plome and repaire
the ledes of the Church and Towre as often as need shall require, the
Churchwardens giveing him ivarneinge thereof, vnto the which bill the
said Richard hath heere put his hand the seventh day of October in the
yeere of our Lord God 1618.
Richard ffrancklen.
Witnesses,
Richard Lavington, John Lavington.
In these items the name of Lavington is of frequent
occurrence. There were two branches of the family — one
settled at Wilsford, the other at Milcot, in North Newnton.
Both bore the following arms : — Argent, a sallire gules,
0)i a chief of the second three boars heads erased or. Their
Pedigrees are entered in the Heralds' Visitation of Wilts,
a.d. 1623.
Edward Kite.
THE CHRYSOM BOOK OF ST. THOMAS, NEW SARUM.
(Cout/uued from p. 211.)
Rs of Raffe Rtigely the xxix daye of September 1 5S2, for churchengs
and wedyftgs ofryngs, besyds iii cresomes, x\xs. vr/.
From the Feaste of St. Michael) tharkangell unto the
nativitie of Christ.
The CJtrysotn Book of St. T/iomas, New Sanim. 267
John Mortimer unto Agnes Dickson the first daye of October, for
his offring. i\d. ; Thomas Hunt unto Margery Caplin the viii daye ot
October, for his ofring, xvid.; Edward Godfreyes wyfe churched the
x day of October, for her chrisom, vie/., for her ofring, xd. ob. qr. ; Umfrie
Dightons wife churched the xi daye of October, for her chrisom, vie/.,
for her offring, ob. qr. ; Steeven Tanbot unto Sibcll Withier the xv daye
of October, for thr. offring, xxd. ob. ; James Godhed unto Joan Wayte
the xv of October, for tliere offring, iid. ; Edwarde Langtons wyfe
churched the xvi daye of October, for her chrisom, vi^., for her ofring,
id.; John Dollings wife churched the xvi daye of October, for her
chrisom, iiiic/., for her offring, Id. ; Wyllyam Spirings wyfe churched the
xix daye of October, for her chrisom, x\d., her offring, ob. qr. ; John
Serchfields wyfe churched the xxii daye of October, for her chrisom,
v^., her offring, iid. ; Hugh Tamsons wyfe churched the xxv daye of
October, her chrisom, viie/., her offring, \ld. ; Wyllyam Necomb [?] unto
Katheren Walter the xxviii daye of October, for their offring, vitid. ; Mr.
Holsons wyfe churched the xxviii daye of October, for her chrisom,
xi'id. ; Rychard Mills unto Elizabeth Martin the xviii daye of October,
for there offring, xh'id. ob. ; Mr. Figgs wyfe churched the thirde daye of
November, for her chrisom, v\d., and for her offring, id. ; Nicholis Fries
wyfe churched the xiiii daye of November, for her chrisom, iiiu/., her
offring, ob. ; Rycharde Cramers wyfe churched the xvii daye of
November, for her chrisom, xid., here offring, iid.) Thomas Gilberte to
Elizabeth Colman the xviii of November, for there offringe, iis. ; Pill
Whites wyfe churched the xxii daye of November, for her chrisom, vd. ;
Thomas Barnes unto Franncis Pysanye the xxv Daye of November, for
the ofring, v\d. ; Richard Spanders wiffe churched the xxviii Daie of
November, for her chrisom, xid., for her ofringe, Hid. ; Willm. Clarkes
wiffe churched the same daie, for her chrisom. i\i\d., for 1km- ofringe, id. ;
Christopher Tompsons wiffe clnnched the first of December, lor her
chrisom, i\iid. ; John Goldes wiffe churched the thirde of december, for
her chrisom, xid., tor her oferinge, i'ud. ; John Lyddes churched [sic] the
same daie, for her chrisom, Vmd., and for her offringe, id. ob. ; Edwarde.
Nobles wiffe churched the viii daie of December, for her chrisom, virt^.,
and lor her offringe, id. ; John Whores wyffe churched the x of
December, for her offringe, Hid. qr. ; Roger Lovelies wiffe churched the
xvii daie of December, for her chrisom, vid?., her offringe, Hid. ; Thomas
Tytchburnes wiffe clnnched the xix of December, for her crysom, vid.,
her offringe, iiiu/. ; Richarde Poores wiffe clnnched the same Daie. her
crysom, iiiirt?., offringe, id. ; Roberte Parkers wiffe churched the xx Daie,
her offringe, mid. [the clnlde departidj.
Sin totall in nativitat liuit, xxs. vind. ob.
Memorandum laid out for candelles, viii lb., xxd.
ttm. one greate candell, ii\i</., in tot., lis.
Rs of Kafle a Saynt Thomas Eve lor churche goyngs and wedengs,
xx^. vmd. ob.
268 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
A Fcsto Nativit Dni Vt Annuntiaconis Bcati Marie
Virginis in Ao. 1582, January Anno Dni 1582.
Henry Willms wyfe churched the iii Daie of January, for her
crysom, vid., her ofringe, Hid. ob. qr. ; Richarde Marshe wyfe churched
the vii Daie of January, children deade, her offeringe, ob.; the bakers
wiffe at the Dolphine churched the xiii Daie, her crisome, v\d. ; Anthonie
Savidges wiffe churched the xvii Daie, for lier crysom, Viiid., heroffringe,
id. ; George Clarkes wiffe churched the xix Daie, for her crisom, iiii^.,
her offringe, id.; Anthonie Bisshoppes wiffe and another in Cranstreete
there the xxi daie, for there crisomes, ixd. January 1583: — John
Whatkines churched the xxiiii day of Januarie, for her chrisom, vid., her
offering, id. ob. ; William Smithes wyf churched the xxviii day of
January, for her chrisom, vid?., her offring, id. ob. ; Thomas Nottes wiffe
churched the xxx of januarye, for her chrisom, vd., her offringe, od. ;
Richarde Batts wiffe the vi of februarye, the childe dead*.:, her offring,
id.; John Longmans wiffe churched the viith of February, the childe
deade, her offringe, \d. ; Mr. Peter Hawardes wiffe churched the ix daie
of Februarye, her crysom, viiid. , her offringe, vd. ob.; John Pynockes
wyfe churched the xii of Februarye, her crisom, vid., her offring. ob. ;
Henry Girles wiffe churched the xii of Februarye, t he childe deceassed,
her offringe, ob. ; Willm. Goodridges wiffe, Richarde Caryes wiffe, Tho.
Stanleys wiffe churched the xxi of February, for the crysomes, xviiid.,
their offringes, m\d. qr. ; Richarde Parsons wiffe churched the
xxviiith of Februarye, tor her crysom, vid., ye offringe, id. ob. ; Roberte
Staples wiffe churched Marche the first, iiii^/. the chrisom, ob. qr.
offringe; Tho. Morgans wiffe churched the vii of March, the childe
deade, nich. ; Symon Neales wiffe and Willm. Mighelles wiffe churched
the ix of Marche, there crysomes, xiid., there offringes, vid. ob. ;
Richard Symbarbes wiffe churched the xix of March, the childe de-
ceassed, nich.; Anthonie Popes wiffe churched the xxth of Marche, the
childe dead, offringe, id. ob. ; John Peerses wiffe churched the xxfi <»i
Marche, her crysom, vid.; Willm. Vynycs wiffe churched the xxii of
Marche, her crysom, vid., offringe, id. ob.
Sm totall fynit in festo Annucacon beati Virginis Marie, xii.w ixd.
Memorandum layed oute for vii lb. ofcandelles, xviid. ob.
Itm. for oyle, viiid. Sni, Us. id. ob.
Rs for churche goyngs and offryngs and cresomes, xiis. ixd.
Edmund R. Nevill.
(To be continued.)
Will of Samuel Aficliell, of Notion, 1694. 269
WILL OF SAMUEL MICHELL, OF NOTTON, 1694.
Samuel Michell the elder, of Xotton. clothier, 30 May 1694. To
son-in-law, Robert Tarrant, a tenement with garden and orchard now
in his occupation, and two closes called the Sanctuaries for his life, then
to his wife (my daughter Martha) for her life, then to my grandson
Robert Tarrant and his heirs. To Samuel, another son of Robert
and Martha Tarrant, after the decease of me and my now wife Susanna
Michell, all my land in Woodrew, on attaining the age of 24 years,
paying thereout to his Aunt (my dnujh'.er Jane Michell) ten pounds
yearly during her life. To grandson Thomas Colborn (son of Thomas
Colborn and my daughter Elizabeth* my messuage in Xotton, after the
decease of ine and my wife, provided he shall allow his Aunt (my
daughter Jane) a chamber therein, or twenty shillings yearly; also my
term in two grounds at Winterwell.1 in Lacock, purchased of Nicholas
Gore and John Grist. To son-in-law Robert Tarrant, and my grandson
Thomas Colborn, lease of grounds at Winterwell, and the little ground
at Notton, which I purchased of Sir Edward Hungerford,- in trust for
use of my daughter Anna Warne and her children; also .£100 in trust
for same use. To daughter Jar:e Michell ,£50. To granddaughter
Martha Godwyn ^50 to be paid to her at the age of 21 years. To son-
in-law Thomas Colborn, and my daughter Elizabeth his wife, and all
their children 20.?. each. To son-in-law James Collet, and his wife
Susannahs each. To granddaughter Susanna Collet /'to, and to the
rest of their children (excepting Samuel) £1 each. To son-in-law Roger
Warne, his wife Anna, and all their children 20^. each. To son-in-law
Jonathau Godwyn $s. To son-in-law Robert Tarrant, my daughter his
now wife, and their daughter 20s. each. To grandson Thomas Colborn
my Cloth mark called the Gold Cross to and for his only use for ever.
To wife Susanna Michell £20 and all my household goods, excepting a
bedstead and hangings which 1 give to my daughter Jane Michel! ; and
one other bedstead and hangings to my grandson Thomas Colborn.
Son-in-law Robert Tarrant, and my grandson, residuary legatees and
joint executors.
The late Sir Thomas Phillipps, in his volume of Monu-
1 Land at Winterwell is mentioned in a grant, from Sir John Bluet,
Knight, Lord of Lackhain, to Robert Do le Brig', clerk, a.d. 1308. British
Museum Additional Charters, .Yip. 1C33.
5 Sir Edward "The Spendthrift ", born 1G32, sold Farley Castle 1680.
died 1711, buried in the old Church of St. Martin's-in-t he-Fields, London.
He converted the London residence of bis family into a market, long known
as Hungerford Market, the site of which is now occupied by the Charing
Cross Hotel and Railway Station.
270
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
mental Inscriptions in North Wilts (1S21), gives the following
inscriptions from Lacock Church: —
"Here lyeth the Body of Samuel Michell, of Notton, clothier, who
deceased the 4th clay of February 1698, aged 74 years."
"Here lyeth the Body of Susannah the wife of Samuel Michell, who
departed this life ye . . . March Anno Domini 1699, aged 76 years."
Was the testator a member of Michell of Calston, Bevvley
and Secnd, whose pedigree occurs in the Visitation of Wilts,
1565 and 1623 ?
GENEALOGICAL NOTES ON THE HOULTON FAMILY.
{Concluded jrom p. 213.)
In registers of Salisbury Cathedral : —
Robert Iloulton and Anne Yorke, married 6 June 1620.
In Marriage Allegations, Vicar-General of Archbishop of
Canterbury (Marl. Soc.) : —
1692, Apr. 12th. Nathaniel Houlton, junr., of Allhallows, Bread
Street, London, mercer, bachr., abt. 24, and Mary Clay, of Allhallows
the Great, Lond., spr., abt. 17, with consent ot her father, Mr. John Clay,
dyer; at St. Nicholas Cole Abbey, Lond.
1694, June 26th. Wight Woolley, of St. Dunstan's-in-the-East,
Lond., merchant, bachr., abt. 22, and Mrs. .Mary Houlton, of Allhallows,
Bread St., Lond., sp., abt. 20, with consent of her father, Mr. Nathaniel
Iloulton; at St. Ethelborough, Lond., or [blank].
In Marriage Licences granted at Faculty Office of Arch-
bishop of Canterbury at London (Marl. Soc.) : —
1696, July 20. John Houlton, of Bromeham, co. Wilts, bachr., 24,
and Mary Pett, spr.. 17, dau. of Samuel Fett, Esq., of Battersea, co.
Surrey, who consents; at St. Andrew's, Holborn, or [blank].
In the Genealogist, vol. iii, some extracts from the Parish
Registers of Seend are given, including the following: —
Joseph, son of John Holton, gent., and Mary his wile, bapt.
18 Sept. 1700.
Mary, dau. of John Holton, gent., and Mary his wife, bapt.
23 June 1701.
. John Houlton, gent., bu. 5 Aug. 1704.
John Houlton, Esqre., bu. 14 Nov. 1764,
Genealogical Notes on the Hon I ton Family. 271
In Marriage Licences in Dio. Bath and Wells : — 1
31 May 1711. Robert Helton, of Trowbridge, and Sarah Abraham,
of Frome Sehvood.
M.I. at Seend (see the Genealogist, vol. iii). In the
chancel :—
"Near this place lyeth ye body of John Honlton of this parish,
Esquire, who departed this life August 1st, a.d. 1704, aged 36. Whose
excellent nature and obliging demeanour have left him a monument in
the hearts of his friends more durable than this of marble. Near this
place also lieth the body of Mary, the wife ol John Honlton, who
departed this life the 30th June 1730, aged 51."
Arms : On a fess between three talbot's heads erased, as
many qualrefoils ; impaling, Sable, on a fess wavy argoii
between three plates a lion passant.
In Seend church there is also a marble to George Muse}-,
B.D., formerly Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge,
chaplain to his Grace the Duke of Somerset, etc., rector of
Trowbridge, co. Wilts, where he died 14 July 1741, aged 40.
Also of George Husey, his only son, who died 6 June 1758,
aged 19. Also Mar}- Husey, wife of Rev. Geo. Husey, only
dau. of John Houlton, Esq., and Mary his wife.
Arms : Argent three barrulcts gules.
Crest : A man couped at the waist drinking from a pitcher.
On flat stones in Seend Church :—
"Mary Husy ob. 2 Nov. 1778, rct. 76."
"Hoc sub lapide requiescunt cineres Johannis Houlton, Armigeri,
qui obiit 1 August i Anno Dom. 1704, /Etatis 36."
"Hie jacet corpus M arise Uxoris Johannis Houlton, quae obiit
30 Junii 1730, /Etatis 51. '
Sir Thomas Pbillipps, in his M.I. of Wiltshire (1S21),
gives: — At Seend (in addition to those already given) : —
On flat stone in chancel : —
"Here lyeth the body of John Houlton, Ksq., son of John Houlton,
Esq., who died Nov. t ho loth. 1 764, aged 66."
1 Now being published in tiie Genealogist, new series.
272
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
At Trowbridge : —
"Elizabethae, sub marmoreo eo juxta positae. Roberti Houlton,
dilectiss. Uxoris ; ob. Apr. A. Dni. 1707, ^Etat. suae 20. Etiam Elizab.
filiae qu. ob. Apr. 16.''
Arms : Argent^ on a Jesse azure, three bezants between as
many talbofs heads erased of the second, crescent for difference ;
impaling, Argent, three lions rampant and a chief azure.
At Griltlcton, full inscriptions to the following: —
Nathaniel Houlton, Esq., died 2 May 1754, aged 60. (Arms given.)
John Houlton, Esq., died 23 Apr. 1767, aged 75.
Joseph Houlton, died 27 Nov. 1765, aged 44.
Mary, wife of above Joseph, died 21 Oct. 1794, aged 74.
Joseph Houlton, anniger, died 10 Apr. 1731, aged 6S.
Robert Houlton, Esq., Lord of this Manor, died 10 Sept. 1771,
aged 67.
John Houlton, Esq., Rear-Admiral of the Blue, died 26 Jan. 1791,
aged 62. (Arms given.)
Three children of Joseph and Anna Houlton, of Farleicrh Castle.
Joseph Houlton, of Farleigh Castle, Esq., Lord of this Manor, died
8 July 1750, aged 62.
Anna, his wife, died 24 Oct. 1754, aged 59.
Anna, their daughter, died lS Nov. 1735, aged 19.
Two other children of theirs.
Robert Houlton, Esq., Lord of this Manor, died 10 Sept. 1771.
R. Boucher.
©tinted
Sanctuary Close. — James Ley, Earl of Marlborough
(1633), and his son Henry (1638), both died seized, inter alia,
of a close of pasture called "Sanctnarie Close" in Dilton and
Westbury, purchased of Matthew Arundell, knight. Samuel
Michell, of Notton in Lacock, clothier, by will (p. 269)
bequeathed to his son-in-law Robert Tarrant two closes also
described as "The Sanctuaries". What is the meaning of the
word Sanctuary thus applied to a field — was it a shelter for
offenders who had transgressed the arbitrary laws of the
Forest ? Scriba.
ox.
is erased azure, as many bezants.
i I
ihn Houlton, ob. Agnes Houlton.
oung ; bur. Hrad-
aid, 1603.
Whitchurch, Katharine vEdw.
(if'roine-Selwood, Houlton, . oi' Ti
Soni. ; ob. 1681 ; bapt. ai | pent.
...C. Will U77 Bradford, P.C.(
; th). Feb. 1638 ; I Gee)
living in |
1716. A
it.— Marv, dau. of John, of Clap-~Ly
J<of John Clay, ham, co. Sur- 1 i\
of London; rev; P.C.C. fo
ob. 170^ ; Adin. 172 5.
P.C.C. Will
(174 Gee).
I I I
toke Harbourn. John Nat
S co. — Houlton off
R.T21 Mary. mei
< s p. Iivi
Will i7S
id).
Joseph
ivies, of
oine.
Houlton,
^•ton ; ob
o Sept.
t>ur. at
bn ; P C.
(442 Tie-
Mary, b ==Henry Wal
1679 ; ob I Sheriff of
6 August , 1715 ; b
1732. I 1753.
A
Robert Houlton. of=-Susai
Bristol ; ob. 21 I Thd
J une 1785 , bur. at the
KedcliflV Church; | ob.
P.C.C. (372 Uu- j Wil
carel).
Joseph Houlton, ofvl)orot
Fnrlcigh Castle , ob. I of
1S06 ; bur. at Far- | CaJ
leigh. I bur
A
PEDIGREE OF HOULTOX.
Arms \— Argent,
three talbot's /mi-A erased azure, as many bezants.
Jolin Houltmi. ol Bradford, CO. Wilts • =.
living at Bradlord, 1597 and r6o7-
Queries.
273
Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A. — The house, No. 3, Little
Brittox, Devizes— now occupied by Mr. Batt, fishmonger, etc. —
was formerly an Inn, known as "The Hull's Plead". The sign
board, which bore a representation of the head of this animal,
is traditionally said to have been an early production in oil
from the brush of Sir Thomas Lawrence, whilst his father was
landlord of the "Bear" Inn, not far distant. Can any corres-
pondent of IV. N. & O. throw further light on the subject;
or is it known what became of the sign board when the house
ceased to be an Inn ? Scriba.
Lenten Yeils. — I have recently read in the Church
limes some interesting articles on Lenten Veils; the writer
saying that they existed well on into Elizabethan times, and
are still used in some parts of Italy. Are they mentioned
in any Wiltshire Church Inventories or Churchwardens'
Accounts ? A. S.
Mountain Bovver. — A small hamlet in North Wilts, partly
in the parish of North Wraxall, partly in that of West King-
ton. Why is it so called? No raised ground, much less hill
or mountain, can be found in the neighbourhood. It is prob-
able that " mountain" is a corruption of "Monkton". The
earliest mention of the hamlet occurs in a terrier of the parish
of North Wraxall, drawn up in 1608, and preserved in the
Episcopal register at Salisbury. It is written cither "momi-
tons", "monutons", or "mountons".
Examining recently a MS. cop}' of the list of Wiltshire
freeholders, drawn up in 1637, I found three times the word
"mounten" written for "Monkton". "Francus King of Moun-
ten Farley" must be "Francus king of Monkton Farley". "John
Sloper of Mounten" must be "John Sloper of Winterbourn
Monkton". "Thomas Long of Mounten" is the well known
"Thomas Long of Monkton", ancestor of the Longs of Rood
Ashton.
T
274
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
But how can we connect this hamlet with a monastery?
Here we have the great authority of John Aubrey, not merely
born and bred in the neighbourhood, but even the owner of a
mill at Ford, in the parish of North Wraxall. He begins his
account of North Wraxall with the statement: "This was
formerly a commandery", i.e., a possession of the priory of
St. John at Jerusalem. West Kington, in which part of Moun-
tain Bower lies, paid a pension of five pounds a year to the
•Priory of Fulgeis (an alien priory in France), a pension still
claimed by Edward VII. Adjoining Mountain Bower is
Marshficld, formerly belonging to the Abbey of Keynsham.
Francis Harrison.
21, Charlotte Street, Bath.
A DeYizes Coin. — There was lately sold in London "a
Devizes penny, a unique coin from the Dartford find, for ^16".
Is any other Devizes coin known, or is there any record of a
Devizes Mint ? A.
" Wiltshiremen will be glad to learn that the unique
coin, bearing on the obverse the name of Stephen, and
on the reverse that of Devizes, was purchased at the recent
Rashlcigh sale of coins by Messrs. Earle and Shirley Fox.
The piece has thus passed into the possession of two keen
lovers of the county, whose early youth was intimately
connected with the town of Dev izcs. I hirty years ago they
correctly attributed the coin to that place from its description
in Hawkins' Silver Coins of England, although this attribution
was not suspected by the then owner, Mr. Jonathan Rashlcigh.
The present possessors have thus waited over a quarter of a
century to secure the object of their desire. It is now their
ambition correctly to solve the historical problems responsible
for the coin's production. Reference was made to it last
winter in a short lecture given by Mr. Shirley Fox in Devizes,
under the auspices of the Devizes Field Club, and he then
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ventured to express a hope that the coin might some day
come into the possession of his brother and himself. This
event having now fortunately taken place, we shall await with
interest the researches of the present owners with regard to
the circumstances under which the coin was struck. Although
bearing the name of Stephen, it is of quite different workman-
ship from the ordinary pennies of that king, and the die was
certainly not produced by the die sinkers employed at the
royal mints. Later on we hope to have more to say upon
this most interesting subject, and meanwhile must express
our satisfaction that the piece has passed into such appreciative
hands. With regard to another coin, of baronial type, also
attributed in the Rashlcigh catalogue to Devizes, considerable
doubt seems to exist as to whether this attribution is really
correct. The inscription upon it is very ill struck and the
reading extremely doubtful."
An Ancient Wiltshire Custom. — In some printed notes
on the extensive property of Lady Meux, in the neighbour-
hood of Wootton Bassett and elsewhere in North Wilts,
which was disposed of by auction several years ago, I find
the following : —
"There is still practised an ancient and mysterious
ceremony connected with the lands of this estate, by virtue
of which some of them are freed from the payment of tithe.
The stor}', so far as I could follow it, is that a long-departed
abbot, whose monastery owned the land, remitted the tithe
thereon in consideration only of the annual performance of
certain rights. Should the said rights be neglected, then the
land concerned must once more bear its burden of tithe. Like
Herodotus when he touches on the mysteries of the religion
of old Egypt, those who have to do with this ceremony
declare that 'it is not lawful to speak' thereof, so I did not
press my inquiries. It is, however, called 'Wardale', and
appears to involve the taking of solemn oaths by the owner or
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agent of the estate and by the tenants for the time being of
the land affected, together with a religious celebration at
which these persons only are present, followed by a dinner
and the cutting of a notch upon a hazel wand. This wand,
which resembles a lath, we saw. It had 170 notches, cut
upon it during the last 170 years, and is, I presume, the
successor of some older wand. However this ma}- be, it is
full of notches, and a new one has now come into requisition.
Of course, the interest of this quaint performance lies in the
fact that in the present year of grace rights of property can
still be affected by the fulfilment or otherwise of so obsolete
a secret custom. Those concerned, however, seem to believe
— I know not with what justice — that were it neglected even
for a single year the burden of tithe would once more fall
upon the land. The tale goes, moreover, that in past genera-
tions the ecclesiastics who would have benefited by t'hetcccipt
of that tithe resorted to many artifices to prevent the holding
of the annual court, but always without success. So much
for the custom of 1 Wardale'."
It would be interesting to know something more of this
custom, and to what particular part of the property it refers.
The estates sold included altogether some twenty-five
thousand acres. Scriba.
Giare (p. 214). — Jonathan Giarc, Vicar of Chippenham,
was the son of David Giare, of Weymouth.
The following particulars may be of interest : — Jonathan
was instituted to the vicarage of Chippenham in 1643, and has
M.I. in the north chapel of that church: — "Neare vnto this
place lieth | inter'd the bodies of Air. Jonathan Giare the
late I Vicar of this place and his two sons | which said Vicar
Replies.
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departed this life | the 26th clay of December in the ycarc j -of
ovr Lord i6So.
"Stars fall, bvt in the grossncsse of ovr sight,
A good man dying, the world doth lose a light;
While we lament ovr loss sveh lights pvt ovt,
The heavens trivmph, above the angels shovt.
If vertve itself witli vertvovs men eovld dy,
Reader thov then mightst say here il doth ly."
His wife has M.I. in the north-west porch of Bath Abbey :
"Beneath this Marble Monument [ Lyeth the Body of | Mrs.
Elizabeth Gyare : Daughter of John Williams Esqr. | who was
Son of Sr. John Williams o( Herringstone in ye County | of
Dorset, Knt., who married Eleanor one of ye Daughters j and
Coheirs of Richard Phelipps of Montague, in ye County | of
Somerset, Escjr., Widdow of the Learned, Eloquent and | Pious
Mr. Jonathan Gyare: Late Minister of Chippenham in ye |
County of Wilts. Deceased February the 17th, 1688. | Mary
the Daughter of ye said Jonathan and Elizabeth | Gyare and
wife of John Taylor, Gent., departed this Life j the 10th of
June 17 14 and lyes interr'd in ye same Vault."
[Archdeaconry of Wilts.]
1679, Oct. 20. Jonathan Giare, of Chippenham, clerk. Brothers
Thomas and John, 10s. each; sister Mary Palmer and sister Sarah
Weech, 20.9.; Thomas Easte, of London, goldsmith, is. ; Mary Easte,
my daughter, £5 ; poor of Chippenham, 505.; wife Elizabeth, ex'ix ;
friends Thomas Long, Esq., and John 1 'aimer, clerk, overseers, io.v.
each. Witnesses: Barnabas Holway, Henry Keale [?]. Inventory,
^"182 55-. 2d. Seal: A dog or lion passant between ikree martlets.
Crest : A mailed arm holding an arrow or sword.1 Proved by Mrs.
Elizabeth Giare, relict, 16S0, Jan. 29. (English style.)
[P.C.C. 63 Lnt.]
16S1, June 10. Elizabeth Giare, of city of Bath, widow. Whereas
William Fry, of Bevvley, p'ish of Laycock, yeoman, by indenture, 4 Jan.
1 In the Visitation of Dorset, 15G5, printed in the Genealogist, N.S., III,
the Arms of Williams of Heringstone are given on their pedigree as:
Argent, a greyhound courant in fess table between three, Cornish choughs,
within a bordure engrailed gules charged with four crosses j>«ty or and as
many bezants alternately. Crest: .1 man's arm cmboiecd habited sable, t lie
hand holding an oak branch fruetcd all proper.
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last, between him and me by name of Elizabeth Giare, of Chipenham,
widow, of the other part for consideration in sd. indenture hath demised
to me the messuages, &.C., and mansion house at Cantox Hill, p'ish
Laycock, for i.ooo years under yearly rent of one peppercorn if it were
demanded, and whereas there is proviso for redemption of premises by
payment of ^63, I devise to lriends Thomas Long, the elder, of Rowden,
p'ish Chippenham, and William Brewer, of Trowbridge, clothier, all sd.
messuages, &c, in trust (during the coverture between Thomas East,
of London, goldsmith and ingraver, and my daughter Mary East) for
my daughter Alary East, and after determination of sd. coverture, same
trustees to hold for any daughter shall declare and appoint, and in
default of such declaration, then reversion to my loving nieces Elizabeth
and Mary, daughters of my brother John Palmer; late husband Jonathan
Giare. Witnesses: — Robert Webb, William Westwood, Richard
Deverell, Henry Newman; scaled and published in presence of Wm.
Clement, cler., Elizth. Clement, Wm. Webb. I'd. by Thos. Long and
Wm. Brewer, 16S9, May 10.
Simon Aston (vol. ii, p. 249).— In an article on Sir William
Whelcr in the current number of the Genealogist, mention is
made of John Whelcr, citizen and grocer, of All Hallows,
Staining, where he is probably buried ; he lived chiefly in
Holland, dying in 1617. By his first wife, Anne, sister of the
first Lord Hervcy, he had, with other children, a daughter,
Elizabeth, married to Simon Aston, citizen and grocer, of St.
Peter's, Westcheap. The Whclcrs held "manors of Lye and
Ludbornc, and lands in Westbury and elsewhere, co. Wilts".
In the original note the crest on the Devizes M.I. was omitted,
viz. : a bull's head couped, charged with a ercscctit.
A.
Steeple Ashton Yicarage (pp. 256-7).— The Rev. Drue
Drury, third son of Drue Drury, second baronet (extinct 1712),
of Riddlcsworth Hall, Norfolk, entered Magdalene C ollege,
Cambridge, in 1654. He came into possession of the impropriate
Parsonage and the advowson of the Vicarage of Steeple Ashton
at some time between the years 1688 and 1697. The previ-
ous owners were the family of Martyn, formerly of Steeple
Ashton, afterwards of Salisbury and Chippenham. When
Notes on Books. 279
this family parted with the advowson, they retained the right
to make the next presentation. In 173S Samuel Martyn, of
Chippenham, gent., exercised the right, hac vice, by nominating
Avery Thompson as Vicar, and, as Avery Thompson held the
living for the next nine years, it was not until 1747 that the
Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, could make his
first presentation, though the advowson had been in the
possession of the College for 50 years. The fact of the
retention of the next presentation leads to the supposition
that the Martyns sold the advowson, as well as the impropria-
tion, to Drue Drury, who bequeathed them both to his old
College. Not unmindful of his own count}-, he left the
impropriate parsonage to found a Travelling Fellowship for a
"gentleman's son of Norfolk". His will is dated 1697.
E. P. Knublky.
[lie was grandson of another Drue, the first baronet, who was
also the son of another Drue, gentleman usher to Eliza-
beth and joint warder of Queen Mary at Fotheringay,
who died, aged 99, in 1617. There was also another
Drue, presumabl}' of this family, a silversmith, an entomo-
logist, and writer, who died in 1S03. — Ed.]
£iotcs on i$ooks.
The Gknkalogist, New Series, Vols. XXII, XXIII,
XXI V, 1905-1907. Edited by H. W. Forsyth Har-
vvood ; published by William Pollard & Co., Exeter.
From the pages of this admirable quarterly we will garner
Wiltshire matter worthy of storage in our Magazine, fulfilling
one of the intentions of its foundation.
The frontispiece of vol. xxiii is a fine facsimile of a charter
ol the thirteenth century, with perfect pendant seals, in posses-
sion of the Duke of Norfolk, by which Theobald de Verdon,
2 So Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Constable of Ireland (the third, but the eldest son that left
issue, of John dc Yerdon, by Margery, daughter of Gilbert de
Lacy), conveys to his son Theobald, etc., for their homage
the manors of Stoke and Wilsford, co. Wilts, to be held of
the grantor, etc., by the service of one-fourth of a knight's fee.
Edward III, in 1330, granted the manor of Kyneley,
co. Wilts, late the property of Edmund, Earl of Kent,
attainted, to Geoffrey, the third son of Roger Mortimer, first
Earl of March, by Jane de Join vi lie.
The diary of Christopher Sanderson relates that on
"Nov. 24, 168S, Saturday the King came from Salisbury cV.
came to Whitehall Munday ye 26th and ye prince of orange
march'd into Salisbury Sunday Novembr. 25th".
Mr. Wagner gives the connexion of the Pollens with the
Huguenot family of Laprimaudaye, and the marriage of John
Awdry, of Notton, with Susanna Mary, who had a double
descent from Olivier and Masse, 1770; she died in 1 7 7 1 ,
leaving no issue.
Dugdale's Visitation of Yor/:s, with additions, supplies the
marriage of William Estcourt, of Cowitch, co. Wilts, with
Mary, daughter of Sir Charles Ingleby, of Austwick, bapt. at
Clapham in 1683; and that of Charles Tucker [Tooker], of
, co. Wilts, now residing in Rotherham (mar. there
1656), with Anne, daughter of Richard Mountney, of Rother-
ham, where she was bur. 1071.
There is a memoir of the late Dr. Marshall, York Herald,
who printed the Visitation of Wills , 1623; an appreciative,
though perhaps flattering, encomium on IV. N. & Q. ; the
Rev. E. Nevill prints some notes on Ncvill of Essex, and
commences the valuable Marriage Licences of Salisbury; the
Editor of IV. N. c Q. prints a copy, with woodcut, of an
original Grant of Arms in old French, 1528, to Morgan, of
Morgan Hayes, co. Devon, a copy of which has been now
placed on record in H.M. College of Arms, the College having
only in its books a docket of the arms ; he also prints a roll
of arms, 1713, consisting of one hundred and twenty-one
Notes on Books.
2$I
shields, and has commenced another roll of nearly one thousand
shields, 1673.
Pedigrees from the Dl Banco Rolls, lenip. Hen. VII.
Trin., 1 Hen. VII, in. 144. — Catherine, widow of William
Hastynges, Kt., Edward Hastynges, of Hastynges, Kt., and
William Husc, Kt., sue John Audeley, of Audeley, Kt., John
Emwell,1 clerk, and William Crampeley, clerk, for the next
presentation to Codford St. Peter ; a moiety of the advowson
is appendant to the manor of Stoke Verdon, which the
plaintiffs hold by grant from the Crown during minority of
George, Earl of Salop. The alternate presentation is in the
family of Audeley. Succession of Rectors, John Paynet,"
Thomas Prous, Richard Geffry, and William Osgoby.5
— Adjourned.
Mich., 3 Hen. VII, m. \j\\d. — Thomas Pynkeney sues John
Clevedon for land in Wodeburgh which John Burdon and
John Brode gave to John Eorster, of Wodeburgh, and Agnes
his wife (ob. s.p.) in tail, with remainder to William Pynkeney,
grandfather through John of the plaintiff. — Adjourned.
Mich., 4 Hen. VII, m. 159. — Writ to Sheriff to issue
precept to Thomas Tremaylc and others to give to John
Danvers manor of Merden, which Edward III gave to John
Dauntsey, Kt., who by Johanna has a son John who has a
daughter Johanna (sister and h. of Walter, s.p.), whose great-
granddaughter Anne (through Edmund and John) marries
John Danvers.
Mich., 6 Hen. VII, m. 155^.— William Chacy sues Robert
Wyllyngham for land in Upton next Blookele, which Geffrey
de Wykewan gave to Thomas de Clipton, who by his wife
Matilda has a daughter Alice, great-great-grandmother of the
plaintiff through John, Thomas, and Edmund. — Adjourned.
1 Precentor and Oanon of Salisbury.
2 Canon of Salisbury.
8 Canon of Salisbury and Castas Choriitarum.
2$2
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Easier, 8 Hen. VII, m. i 53c/. — Recover}' by Henry Sutton,1
clerk, against Roger Neuburgh, arm., and Elizabeth his wife,
of land in Bishopstrowc and Bugleigh, and a several fishery
in the water of Warminster, of which John Neuburgh, grand-
father of said Roger, unjustly disseised said Henry.
Grants and Certificates of Arms.
Moore, John, the elder of Salisbury ; 1597. Ermine, on a
chevron between three moors heads in profile, couped at the neck-
sable, two swords chevron-wise ardent, hilts and pommels or.
Crest : A demi-moor in the dexter hand, a sword in bend sinister,
all proper.
Ncate, Richard, of London, and descendants of father,
John Ncate, of Swindon, clerk ; 1737. Argent^ a chevron vert
between in chief two trefoils of the second, and in base a ball's
head couped gules Jiorned and crincd or. Crest : A bull's head,
as in arms, between two dragon's wings vert.
Norborne, Walter and John,- of Calne, sons of Walter of
the same place, formerly of Hilmarton, Reader and Bencher
of the Inner Temple, loyal adherents of the King; [651 and
1660. Ermine, a fess uebuly gules, on a canton of the second a
crest coronet or. Crest : A demi-lion ermine armed and
langucd gules, between the paws a crest coronet or; with a
descent from Humphrey'1 and his son John, both of Studlcy.
Pile, Gabriel,4 KtM of , co. Wilts ; 1616 (died Nov.
1 Treasurer and Canon of Salisbury, a Doctur of Medicine, Fellow of
Merlon, and a Prebendary of St. Paul's (Jones' Fasti Sarisb.).
2 By Mary Chiver, of Qucmerford ; M.I. ;it Calne ; tbey were both buried
at St. Paul's, Covent Garden, the former being killed in ;i duel. In Visita-
tion of Wilts, 1623, a John Norborne, of Studley, is ignobilis. Their arms
occur on the Norborne M.I., at Calne, 1G59, impaling CH1VKB, with a crescent,
the crest being only a demi-lion rampant,
3 In Visitation of Wilts, 1623, is a pedigree of NORBOBNE, of Brembill, in
which these names do not occur, coat respited fur proof.
1 In Visitation of Wilts, 162:1, described as of Bubton, and in that of
Berks, 16154, as of Uompton, Bucks, w lie re an alternative cresl ifl piven ;
Out of a coronet an antelope's head or horned, voles; his wife was Ann,
daughter of Thomas Porter, of Newark, co. Glouc. See IP. N, ,)• (J., v, 334.
Notes on Books. 2 S3
1626). 1 and 4, Argent, a cross between jour piles (or passion
nails) gules; 2, Argent, three bugle horns stringed in pale gales,
garnished or; 3, Gales, two bars per fess indented argent and
azure. Impaling for his wife, Gules, five wings displayed
argent. Crest : On a mural coronet gules a pelican or valuing
herself of the first.
Marriage Licences or Bath and Wells.
Mines, Thomas, of Corsley, and Elizabeth Dredge, of
Frame Selwood, sp. ; 1 1 May 170S.
Mitchell,1 Francis, of Melksham, and Mary Keignton, of
Weston, by Bath ; at SS. Peter and Paul, Bath, Bath wick, or
Twerton, 12 Aug. 1702.
Moger, Robert, of Wolverton, and Mary Earle, of North
Chadly2 (sic), sp. ; application for licence by Toby Crabb, of
Wolverton, 26 Aug. 1704.
Mogg, Richard, of Lovel's Upton, mason, and Sarah
Harding, of Timsbury, sp. ; at Frome, 29 June 1731.
Mood}-, John, of Horningsham, and Eyet Edwards] at
Frome, 20 Aug. 1751.
Moore, John, of Chilmark, batchclor, and Mary Payne, of
Kilmington, wid. ; b'dm., Thomas Morse, of Lamyatt ; at
Kilmington, 6 June 17.10.
More, Philip, of Chilmark, woolstapler, and Mar}' Hays,
of Frome, sp. ; b'dm., William Pubsay, of Frome, cardmaker ;
at ,16 Jan. 1 705-6.
Morgan, Samuel, of Frome, broadweaver, and Martha
Haskell, of Mill Devcrill, sp. ; at Frome, 27 Nov. 1746.
Morgan, William, of Wells, gent., and Mar}' Codrington,
of Dodington, sp. ; b'dm., John Morgan, of Warminster, gent.,
Thomas Cannington, of Warminster, gent. ; at North Stoke,
Weston by Bath, Svvainswick, or St. Catherine, 22 Dec. 1673. '
1 Sipis Scend Easter Vestry Minutes as "Chapel-warden," 1711.
*J Probably Ca<lley in Savcrnakc, north of Cndlcy iii Collingbourne
Kingston.
5 It appears to have been celebrated at Dodington, 24 Dec 1<".7:{.
2S4
Morgan, Benjamin, of Warminster, peruke maker, and
Sarah Forward, of Frome, sp., aged 21; parents consent;
7 Dec. 1719.
Morley, William, of Batheaston, plasterer, wid., and Joan
Bamct, of Sutton, sp. ; b'dm., Francis Morley, of Batheaston,
plasterer; at Batheaston, 8 Oct. 1754.
Mortimer, Evered, of Trowbridge, and Ann Smith, of
Frome, sp. ; 21 Feb. 1711-12.
Moxham, Robert Allen (sic), of Bradford, cloth worker,
and Ann Tovcy, of Bath, wid. ; at Bathwick, Weston, or
Claverlon, 10 July 1710.
Mullins, Thomas, of Tellisford, drugget maker, and
Deborah1 Mcrvyn, of Farley, sp. ; b'dm., Joseph Mervyn, of
Winkfield, baker; 21 July 1715.
Mullins, Thomas, of Bath, ycom., and Elizabeth Sylver-
thornt of Batheaston, sp. ; b'dm., Stephens Mullins, of Colcrnc ;
2 Aug. 1708.
Newman, James, of Sutton, broadweaver, and Elizabeth
Browne, of Stoke Lane, sp., aged 21 ; father consents; at St.
Cuthbert's, Wells, 7 Jan. 1716-17.
Paine, Robert, of Hungerford Farley, ycom., and Margaret
Bridges, of Westbury ; b'dm., John Bridges, of Wcstbury,
Wilts, ycom. ; at , 1 March 1707-8.
Painter, John, of Bradford, gent., and Esther Axford, of
Newton St. Loc, wid. ; b'dm., Jeffery Combs, of Bath ; 9 Jan.
1711-1 2.
Painter, John, of Warminster, maltster, batchelor, and
Mary Sparks, of Stoke Lane, sp. ; at Stoke Lane, 2 May
»755-
Palmer, John, of West Ashton, husb., aged 29; parents
consent; and Ann Rich, of Claverton, sp., aged 30; mother
consents; b'dm., Thomas Stent, of Norton St. Philip, husb. ;
at Claverton, 26 July 1680.
Paradise, John, of Bishop's Cannings, gent., and Esther
1 A name in use with Miuu'vx, of Fonthill Gilford.
Noics on Books.
Rooke, of Potterne, wid. : b'dm., Esther Rook, of Potterne ;
14 May 1 70S.
Parker, Richard, of Ubley, clothier, & Catherine Clark,
of Trowbridge, sp. ; father consents; at Wcllow or Ubley,
21 July 1703.
Parsons, John, of New Sarum, gent., and Amy Cooke,
sp. ; b'dm., John Parsons, of New Sarum, gent., and Abraham
Cooke, of Shepton Mallet, gent. ; at Shcpton Mallet, Blagdon,
or Wells, 22 June 1674.
Parsons, James, of Road, drugget maker, and Eleanor
Dyke, of Stoke, in Bradford, sp. ; at Frome, Road, or Pensford,
3 July 1712.
. Parsons, Joseph, of Melksham, ycom., wid., and Mar-
garet Philpott, of Batheaston, wid. ; at Batheaston, 16 Nov.
1754-
Peirce, William, of Berkley, clothworker, and Christian
HuMphryes, of Wcstbury, sp., aged 24 ; b'dm., Daniel Davis,
of Frome, clothworker ; at Frome, 19 Sept. 17 13.
Pierce, William, of Ncttlecombe, gent., and Margatt Eyre%
of Box, wid.; at Bathford or Monk ton Farley; 8 March
1713-14-
Pernor, John, of Wylye, and Mary Pearce, of Wincanton,
sp. ; at Mapcrton, 17 March 1745-6.
Pillon, Daniel, of Warminster, and Ann Mullinst of
Tellisford ; at Tellisford, 2 Feb. 1 701-2.
Potter, John, of Rodden, yeom., and Elizabeth Baskervill,
of Trowbridge, w. ; 7 May 1720.
Powell, William, of Devizes, waggoner, and Hester Vigort
of Kilmersdon, sp., aged 30; no parents; at Kilmersdon,
Dunkerton, Camerton, or Combe Hay, 16 April 1707.
Powell, Elias, of Berwick St. James, husb., and Anne
JVad/ow, of Brewham, sp., aged 21 j mother consents; at
Brewham, Tellisford, or Wolverton, 17 August 1702.
Priddle, Thomas, of Trowbridge, and Rebecca Singer, of
Frome, wid.; at Marston Bigott, 27 Dec. 1721.
Raleigh, Isaac, of Marlborough, cooper, and Mar)- Whittyt
286 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
of Frome, sp., aged 27 ; mother consents ; at Frome or -Elm,
24 Dec. 1 706.
Reeves, Robert, of Westwood, clothworker, and Hester
Marly, of Elm, sp. ; b'dm., Richard Bartlet, of West Pennard,
clothworker; at Frome, 14 Feb. 170S-9.
Rennells, Samuel, of Bradford, mason, and Elizabeth Hall,
of Kilmcrsdon, sp. ; at Kilmcrsdon, 17 Jan. 172S-9.
Rix, Robert, of Downton, millwright, wid., and Ann
Richards, of Marston Bigott, sp., aged 19; b'dm., John
Richards, of Frome, cordwaincr ; at Marston Bigott, 24 Jan.
1 755-
Rodborne, Thomas, of Bedminster, shipwright, and Jane
Rutty, of M elk sham, sp., aged 24 ; mother consents ; at Mid-
somer Norton or Writhlington, 27 July 17 15.
Rogers, George, of Bath, cordwaincr, and Ruth Liftiat, of
Chippenham, sp., aged 27 ; at Bathwick, Bathcaston, Weston,
Widcombc, or Twerton, 22 Dec. 170S.
Rogers, Robert, of Codford, clothier, and Grace Brod-
ribf of Batcombe, sp., aged 30; parents consent; f> Sept.
1723.
Rosewell, Thomas, of Bath, limeburner, and Sarah
Eslwart, of Woolley in Bradford, wid. ; at Bath, South Stoke,
Bathwick, or Claverton, 31 Jan. 170^-5.
Rutty, Robert, of North Bradley, drugget weaver, and
Margaret Batten, of Road, wid. ; at Frome, 23 Aug. 1742.
Sangrobe, James, of Ilcytesbury, and Elizabeth Ellin, of
Bruton ; 7 July 1 705.
Sansom, John, of St. James, Taunton, weaver, and Ann
JVhelphs, of Polshot, sp. ; at the Cathedral, Well.-, 5 Oct.
1728.
Scott, Thomas, of Chilmark, and Bridget King, of Wan-
strow, sp., aged 30; father consents; at Wanstrow, 12 Feb.
170S-9.
Scrace, Sampson, of East Lydford, clothier, and Sarah
Harding, of Bradford, sp., aged 21 ; parents consent; at St.
Cuthbcrt, Wells, 31 July 1702.
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Seymour, William,1 of Maiden Bradley, esq., and Elizabeth
Hippie, sp. ; at Charlton Horcthornc or Chilton Canvill,
15 July 1636.
Shepherd, John, of Stourton, carpenter, and Ann Rogers,
of Kilmington, sp. j b'dm., Edmund Shepherd, of Wincanton,
carpenter, and John Smart, of Stourton, victualler; 19 May
»7«3-
Singer, William, of Eromc, yeom., and Alary Stibbens, of
Maiden Bradley, sp., aged 22; parents consent; at Mars ton
Bigott, Elm, or Whatley, 12 July 1701.
Skeat, John, of Devizes, joiner, and Susannah Gay, of
Bathampton, sp., aged 23 ; no parents ; at St. Cuthbert, Wells,
19 June 1747.
Skrine, John, of Beckington, clothier, and Man- Jesse, of
Chilmark, sp. ; at Orchardleigh, 5 Sept. 1742.
Small, Thomas, of Kilmersdon, broad weaver, and Hester
Breach, of Melksham ; b'dm., Walter Breach, of Broughton
Giffard, baker; at Elm, 23 May 1735.
Smart, John, of Kilmington, batchclor, and Anne Rocke,o(
Baracke St. John, sp. ; at Milton Clevedon, 25 July 1739.
Smith, John, of Merc, batchclor, and Anne Marksy of Kil-
mington, sp. ; at Milton Clevedon, 12 Apr. 1740.
Smith, John, of Beckington, cooper, and Elizabeth Dyke,
of Bradford ; at Beckington, 9 J une 17 33*
Smith, May, of Colerne, yeom., and Margaret Haw/ems, of
Ratford, parish of Paulton, wid. ; 12 June 1708.
Smith, May, of Colerne, yeom., and Alice Hardwick, of
Timsbury, wid.; at Timsbury, 2 July 1714.
Smith, William, of Corsham, upholsterer, aged 20, and
Jane Graunt, of Taunton, wid. ; at Taunton or Monckton,
12 ... . 1678.
Smithlicld, William, of Ereshford, and Joane Fisher, of
1 Fourth son of Sir Edward Seymour, 5th Bart., of Berry Pomcroy and
Maiden Bradley, and brother of 13th Duke of Somerset, who married a
Seend heiress; his wile was dau. of John Hippie, of Krorae, ob. i.p.
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same, wid. ; b'dm., John Smithfield, of Westwobd, husb. ; at
Englishcombe, Freshford, or Preston, 16 June i6So.
Southby, Richard, of Highworth, gent., batchelor, and
Ann Capper, of Charlton Adam, sp. ; b'dm., Edmund Capper,
of same, gent. ; at Charlton Adam, 24 Dec. 1754.
Stans, Nathaniel, of Croscombe, clothier, aged 25, and
Sarah Bull, of Devizes, sp., aged 21 ; at Frome, Beckington, or
Berkeley, 5 May 1679.
Still,1 Nathaniel, of East Knoylc, esq., and Elizabeth
Lockcii, of East Cokcr, sp., aged 20 ; mother consents ; b'dm.,
William Champion, of Shaftesbury ; atEastCoker, 5 May 16S3.
Stokes, John, of Chel worth, gent., and Elizabeth Stokes, of
Bishopstrow ; b'dm., John Vigor, of Chehvorth, gent., 28 June
1 70S.
Stradwell, Robert, of Uphaven, and Mary Hooper; at
SS. Peter and Paul, Bath, 1 Oct. 1745.
Stratton, John, of Bradford, millman, and Ann Colston ; at
Road or Beckington, 14 Oct. 1747.
Stroud, Joseph, of Warminster, maltster, and Joanna
Gibbons, of Whatley, wid. ; at Elm, 4 Oct. 1736.
Swayne, Henry, of Hilperton, clockmaker, and Mary Til\\
of Lavcrton, wid. ; b'dm., John Yerbury, of Laverton, yeom. ;
16 June 1714.
Sweetland, John, of Bratton, batchelor, and Sarah Jerrett,
of North Brewham, sp. ; at the Cathedral, Wells, 24 Dec.
1739-
1 Great-great-grandson of Bishop Still, of Middle Temple, will proved
1701-2, from whom is descended the present family; she was daughter "f
Richard Lockett, clerk. From the senior branch, extinct in the male line,
was descended Isaac Heard, Garter King of Arms, ob. \6'2'2.
(To be continued.)
ERRATUM.
P. 240, for "Stipleaston", read "Shipleaston".
i !
mm
tWltsfure Jtotcs anU Queries,
SEPTEMBER, 1909.
STOKES.
(Concluded from p. 248J
^TfP^I ^ nia'<e our Papers more complete it lias been
*fUk thought fit to add the following notes (considerably
^fJ^J altered) contributed by the writer some time ago
fflflW to Miscell. Gen. cl Her., Fourth Series, ii vol.
In 1 86 1 the Archaeological Institute met at
Peterborough, when the Rev. the Hon. 1). Finch exhibited at
Oakham Rectory, co. Rutland, a portrait of Adrian Stokes
and the Duchess of Suffolk, which in iS6S was exhibited at
South Kensington, and was said to have been painted by
Lucas de 1 1 cere.1
Mr. G. E. Cokayne ( C/arettcieux), sole executor to the
late Colonel Chester (that famous and indefatigable genealogist,
always most courteously ready to give information to those
1 It is reproduced here from an engraving kindly lent by the Rev.
Thomas Gabriel Stokes, Chancellor of Armagh. Mr. Were, of Gallingwood
Hall, remarks, "Stokes has been given a nobility helmet, to which he was
not entitled. As regards his wife's coat, it loi-ks to me as if the lozenge
shield has a gobonatcd bordure, hut if bo it should go all round. If it is
intended for a difference to the Royal Tudor coat it should be round each
of the first and fourth quarters,"
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who sought it), has given the present writer permission to
print the following letter. It is addressed to me, and is in
his usual neat script :—
124, Southwark Park Road,
London, S.E.
1 March 1SS0.
Dear Sir,
The Duchess of Suffolk died too early for my "Abbey Registers",
and hence does not appear in my volume.
The inscription on her elaborate monument is in both Latin and
English. The former docs not mention her second husband, but the
latter is as follows : —
"Here lieth the LadIE Frances,
Dvches of Sovthfolke, davghter
to Charles Brandon, Dvke of
Sovthfolke, and Marie ye Frenche
Qvene: first wife to Henrie
Dvke of Sovthfolke and after
to Adrian Sioek, Esqvier."
There are several shields of arms on the monument, those on the
sides containing only the coats of her own family. That on the west
end is as follows : — Quarterly: / and ■/. Ermine, three bars humette
azure charged with cars of com- or, viz., four on the first and second,
and three on the third; 2 and 3, Or, a /Ion rampant gules doubie-r/ucucd
tiowed ; impaling Brandon with quarterings.
The above coats are those of Stock or Stokes. I cannot answer for
the blazon, which I find given only in Neale and Brayley's 1 !;<!<>ry of
the Abbey, but the tinctures seem to agree with the engraving of the
monument printed by Dart. Certainly he makes the field in 2 and 3, Or,
and not Sable.
Over this shield are the figures "1563", the date when Adrian
Stokes erected the monument. She died in November 1559. Stokes is
spoken of by Fox and other writers as a ''Country gentleman", who
married her when she was in distress and disgrace.
I do not find a monument for Adrian Stokes in St. George's Chapel,
Windsor, though he may have been buried there.
I have the will of the Duchess, dated 9 November 1559, in which
she describes herself as "Lady Frances, Duchess of Suffblke, wife to
Adryane S/oches, Esquire". She merely leaves ah her estate real and
personal to Adrian Stocke, her said husband. . . . She died in Novem-
ber and not December, as is usually said.
I have also a marriage licence granted by the Bishop of Loudon,
10 April 1572, for Adrian Stokes, J:.sq., and Dame Anne Throgmorton of
London, widow. I presume tins was the same, who seems to have had
a passion for marrying distinguished widows. This Dame Ann Throg-
Stokes.
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morton, I find, was a daughter of Sir Nicholas Carew of lieddington,
Surrey, and widow of Sir Nicholas Throgmorton, Sewer to Henry VIII,
afterwards Chief Butler of England, Chamberlain of the Exchequer, and
Ambassador to France, who died in London, 12 February 1570-1, of the
Plague, and was buried in St. Catharine Cree Church.
The will of a Dame Anne Throgmorton, probably hers, was proved
in 1587. I have not got it, but it would probably shew whether Adrian
Stokes was still living.
I see, though, just here that this second marriage is quoted in Notes
and Queries, First Series, xii, 452, where it is also stated that Adrian
Stokes died 30 November 1586, leaving his brother William, aged 60,
his heir.
I am afraid that I can add no more* to his history from my own
resources, and I cannot get out to make any investigation.
Dingley, in his History from Marble, gives the following
inscription on the above monument, which he describes as
of alabaster : —
Nil deevs ant Splendor, nil regia nomina prosunt,
Splcndida divitiis nil juvat ampla domus.
Omnia fluxerunt virtutis [?] sola rcmansit,
Gloria Tartareis non abolenda regis.
Nupta Duci prius est, uxor post Armigeri Stokes,
Funere nunc valeat. consociata Deo.
According to Nicholls' History of Leicestershire, Beau-
manor, consisting of only the hall, house, and a few detached
farms and cottages, is an extensive manor, beautifully situated
in a fertile valley on cast side of Charnwood Forest, long held
by the Beaumont family. Lcland says it is "a park closi'd
with stone waules and a pratie logge yn it, longging alate to
Beaumont".
In 1594 it is described as an antient manor-house of
greate rccciptc, motcd about with a large mote stored with
fish, with a drawbridge, garden, orchard, hop yeard, etc.,
thereto belonging, all very convenient and answerable. There
were two parks, one for red deer and the other for fallow.
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The old house was taken clown and rebuilt in 1725, of botli of
which Nicholls gives illustrations ; another one has since been
built on the same site.
After passing through several families by Royal Grants,
it came to Thomas Lord Grey of Groby, second Marquess of
Dorset, through which family it passed to Frances, Duchess
of Suffolk, who married Adrian Stokes, 1 March 1554-5, by
whom she had one child, Elizabeth, who died an infant 7 Feb.
1555-6. Adrian also held property in right of his wife at
Astley, co. Warwick. In 1562-3 he obtained a new lease of
Beaumanor for 21 years from Queen Elizabeth.
[F.C.C. 53 Brudenell.]
Will of Adrian Stockes, 1585.
Dated 15 April, a.D. 15S5. Adrian Stockes, of Beawmanor, co.
Leicester, Esquire, desires to be buried in the chapel of Beawmanor (if
he die there) without any pomp or solemnity " as yt hath bene vsed in
the Lapistes tyme". He leaves to his wile, Lady Anne Throckmorton, his
manor and lordship ot Langacre, co. Devon, to hold to her and her heirs
ior ever, as he has already given the same by deed ; all his goods, furni-
ture, etc., in his house in London and at Brigstocke Lark, co. Xorthants,
as expressed in an Inventory signed by him; the lease and interest in
his house at Leicester and the goods there, and all parcels of plate and
goods at Beawmanor as specified in an Inventory. To Elizabeth
Throgmorlon a bed in the Dutches Chamber at Beawmanor with the
furniture to be given to her on her marriage, and if she die- before hand
the same to go to Nicholas Throgmorton, his wife's youngest son. To
Robert Throgmorton his- horse called "Grey Goodyeare", and to Sir
George Hastings, Knight, his horse called "Grey Babington ". The
rest of his goods and chattels, after payment of his debts, legacies, and
funeral expenses, he leaves to his brother William Stockes, whom he
makes his sole executor. His bequests to his said wife Dame Anne
Throgmorton, to be utterly void if she implead or molest his said
brother William Stockes. Robert Aprice, or any others concerning the
lease or estate for a term of years in the interest of Beawmanor, or any
part thereof. He appoints Sir Walter Myldmaye, Kt.( of the Privy
Council, and Sir George Hastinges, Knight, the supervisors of his will,
giving them each a piece of plate to tin; value of £\0. 1 Ie appoints any
schedule or writing to be annexed to the will and signed by him to be
good and to be taken as his last will.
Debts owing for "the payment of the thre children portions", the
Stokes.
principal ,£2,000 and the interest of the same for twelve years ending
25 April a.d. 1583 being £1,700.
An Inventory of plate, cattle, etc., at Bcaumanor bequeathed to my Lady.
Plate in all 1,290 ounces. Among the items : A great gilt bowl with
arms upon the cover, weighing 50 ozs.; another gilt bow! with a cover
having the bear and ragged staff, 33 ozs. ; three gilt "chal'vce Bowlles",
plain, with one cover weighing three score ounces; three gilt "challyce
boolles", engraven, with two covers, weighing 3S ozs. Fianders cups,
chafing dishes, a "Laver for possett", a great cup with a cover, a gift
from Lady Tyrwhit, a gilt cup for Elizabeth Throgmorton, and another
for Thomas Throgmorton.
Hangings and furniture in my Lady's chamber and in Mistress
Elizabeth Throgmorton's chamber, and household linnen, etc.
A bill of the cattle and horses particularly given to my lady.
Total cattle 46 and horses 29.
An Inventory of household stuff remayning in the house at Leicester
2 j May/jSj, taken by Christopher Fouldcs and Myles Taylier.
[A detailed list of hangings, carpets, cushions, table cloths, beds
and bedding, and other furniture in the various rooms of the house.]
An Inventory of all the household stuff in the little park at Brig stock,
jo May 1583, " as it appcareth by my Mr his book".
A similar list of goods of various rooms in the house, amongst
them: In my lady's chamber, "four pieces of hanginges of Imagery",
beds, etc.
In the great chamber next to it : " First it is hanged aboute with
stripte mockeadoe", a cupboard cloth, etc., a bedstead painted with blue
and orange tawny, with three "vallaunces of blewe sattenn and orenge
tawney velvet, imbrodered with the fawcon and tiie Lyon ', etc.
In the Gallery : Two pictures, one called Hercules and the other
called Sabina.
An Invcutary of the household stuff at the house in London, 2j February
J577i " as yi apfjeareih by my M*& booke".
"Imprimis in my Mr. and my Ladyes chamber hanged all about
with mattes and matted a fyeld bedd of walnuttree ", etc.
In the great chamber next unto the street: Item Jive pieces of
"hanginges of greene leaves with Sr. Nicholas Throckmorton's armes",
a pair of virginalls, chairs and stools, a great steel glass with a cover,
"a frenche kinges pickture", a picture of my lord of Pembroke, another
of my Lady Darsyes, a picture of" Lottes wief", "a picture of old Sr.
Jermine". another of a child and death's head, a book of Martyrs,
"another bokc of Servyce", a picture of Abraham and Isaac. In the
entry : A clock, an oyster table and frame for the same, certain "stories
pictured", " a longe paper of Stories written with sentences of holye
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Scripture", "the descriptions of certayne outlandishe Countries withe
Towers and Castles. Item a longe paper of Kinges with their names
of the scripture, of eight outlandyshe women n and menu".
In the great parlour over the kitchen : Six pieces of hangings of
leaves and beasts, chairs of needlework and stools, etc. ; "a picture of
Queene Katherine Parre with a curteyne and picture of Queen Mary, a
picture of Queen Elizabeth with a curteyn, a picture of the Frenche
Oucene". A picture of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton with a curteyn,
pictures of Sir Robert Throckmorton, my lord of " Denshier " [? for
Devonshire]. Sir Francis Caroe, two tables, "the one to knowe the
monethes, the other of the Scripture '.
In the other rooms : Hangings, beds, beddings, cushions, household
and kitchen utensils, linnen and wearing apparel, etc.
[Proved at London 29 November a.d. 1585.]
[P.C.C. 59 CHAYNAY.]
Will of the Duchess oe Suffolk, 1559.
In the name of God Amen. 1 ladye Fraunces, Duclies of Suffolke,
vvif to Adryane Stockes, Esquyer, consideryng howe vncerten the
hovvre of deathe is, and howe certayne ytt ys that every creature shall
dye when ytt shall please God, being sicke in bodie but whole in
mynde, thankes be to almightie God, and considering with my self that
the saide Adryane Stockes. my husbande, is indebted to dyvcrs and
sundrye persones in greate sommes of money. And also that the
chardges ot my funeralles (if God call me to his mercye) shalbe greate
chardges to hym, mynding he shall have, possesse, and enjoye all
goodes, catalles, as well real as personall as all debtes, legacies, and all
other thinges whatsoeuer I may give or dispose, lymytt, or appoynt by
my last will and testament for the dischardge of the saide debtes and
funeralles do ordeyne and make this my present last will and testament,
and do by the same constitute and make the saide Adryane Stockes, my
husbande, my sole executor to all respectes, intentes, and purposes.
In witnes whereof I have hereunto putt my hande and seale the
ixth daye of November, in the furst yere of the regne of our soueraigne
ladye Elizabeth, by the grace of God queue of England, Fraunce, and
Irelande, defendour of the faythe, etc. Fraunces Suffolke. Seal id and
delivered in the presence of these vndrewrytten : Robert Wyngfelde,
Edmund Hall, Fraunces Bacon, and Robert Cholmeley.
[Proved 2S November 1559.]
[P.C.C. 74 Spencer.]
Will oe Dame Anne Throkmorton, 15S7.
Dame Anne Throkmorton, of London, widow, 16 October 15H7,
bequeaths to her son William Throkmorton, four pieces of hangings
with the Throk morion's arms, a bedstead and its iuruiture, table linnen,
Stokes.
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etc., "and for the better remembraunce of me a tablet." To her son
Arthur Throkniorton, hangings, embroidered cloths, bed, bedding, and
linnen. To her daughter-in-law Anne Throkniorton. her coach and
coach-horses. To her son Thomas Throkmorton, hangings, bedding,
- and linnen. and "his owne gilte Jugges promised*', and a jewel with a
diamond and ruby in it. To her son Nicholas Throkmorton, similar
bequests, and a "jewell with twoe Roses of Kubyes and one ot
Dyamondes". To her daughter Elizabeth Throkmorton, four pieces of
"hanginges of ymagerye vvhiche did hange in the Duchyes chamber at
Bcwmanner, a sperver of crimson velvet!, and cloth of gold with five
curtens of chaungeable taffetaye belonging to the same, a quilte of
chaungeable taffetaye, a fetherbed", etc., all which her "father in law*'
gave her, also all her (Dame Anne's) jewels and chains which she hath
now in her custody and none other, wearing apparel and linnen. To
her brother Sir Frances Carewe, a gilt bowl with a cover having a bear
with a ragged staff and a "stryking cloth*' to stand upon a cupboard.
To her friend Mr. William Hughes, a cup with a cover. To her cousin
Whetelcy, £\o in money and a gown and kirtle. Other bequests to
Elizabeth Ashby her gentlewoman, Joan Xursse, Humphrey Nash, John
Blunt, her servants ; Lady Stafford, Lady Drury, her cousin Agarde and
his wife, Anne Saunders, her godchild Robert Margettes, Mr. Prestwicke
and his wife, and John White. To her son Robert Throkmorton, "a
chayne of the value ot torty poundes or thereaboutes, a peece of plate
whiche the Queene of Scottes did give him with Mr. Throkmorton's
amies and myne", and the rest of her household goods not bequeathed,
except plate and jewels, which she leaves to her executor. She leaves
to her son Thomas Throkmorton, his part of the ,£500 which remains in
the Queen's hands or of so much thereof as shall be obtained. She
makes her son Arthur Throkmorton her sole executor, with her brother
Sir Francis Carewe and Mr. William Hughse, overseers. Witnesses:
Francis Carew, William Hughes, John Prestwicke, Robert Margettes,
William Sargiont.
[Proved at London 10 November a.d. 15S7.]
[P.C.C. 39 Montague.]
Will 01 William Stokls, 1596-7.
William Stokes, late of Bewmannor, co. Leicester, Esq., declared
his will nuncupative in those words or tin- like, viz.: "I bequeath to
my Lady Hastinges, wife to Sir George Hastings, knight, to enjoy alter
my decease all the furniture and hangings in the great chamber of
Beawmannour house, and in the chamber called the 'Dnches Chamber',
and in the chamber over the parlour in the said house." And speaking
to Sir George Hastings, now Fail of Huntingdon, then present, said :
"Sir George, I do make you and my Lady your wife my executors, to
dispose of my goods alter my decease at your pleasure amongst my
kindred and servants, and I desire you to have a care of them." And
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afterwards at sundry times he acknowledged that he had made his will
nuncupative and had ordained (as above). At which premisses William
Stokes was of perfect mind, being present divers good and credible
witnesses.
[Proved at London 5 February 1596-7 on the oath of Thomas
Browne, public notary, proxy for Lord George Hastings, Earl of Hunt-
ington, and Dame Dorothy his wife.]
Memorandum that William Stokes, of Beawmannor, co. Leicester,
Esquire, deceased, a little before his death being certified by some
about him that it was reported that he had made his wiil and made Mr.
Belgrave and Mr. Sapcottes his executors, he presently declared that
Belgrave and Sapcottes should not be his executors, nor that any will
should stand wherein they were named executors, and that they should
not have anything to do with his goods, and declared his last will
nuncupative in form following : lie bequeathed all his goods to his
kinsfolk and servants amongst them, and made the Rt. Hon. George,
Earl of Huntingdon, his executor in the presence of dyvers witnesses.
[Proved, and by definitive sentence approved, 17 June 1602, on the
oath of Kichard Goodall, notary public, proxy for the Earl of Hunting-
don. With sentence for the validity of the will.]
Adrian Stokes, of Devon.
Inquisitio Post Mortem, 2S Elizabeth, Xo. 62. Devon.
lnquisitio indentata capta apud Torrington Mr.cina in Comitatu
Devonie xxv die Maii in anno regni domine r.ostre Elizabethe Dei gracia
Anglie, Francie et Hibernie Regine fidei defensoris, etc., vicesimo
octavo coram Hugonis Saycre [?] esc:etore dicte domine Regine, etc ,
per sacramcntum Ricardi Cople. etc. Qui dicunt super sacramentum
suum quod predictus Aurianus Stokes fuit seis'itus in dominico suo ut
de feodo deat in manerio sive dominis de Langacre in dicto Com.
Devonie cum omnibus suis membris juribus et pertinentiis. Et quod
idem Adriauus sic inde seisitus cxistens licencia regia prius habita et
obtenta scilicet undecimo die Aprilis anno regni dicte domine Regine
nunc quarto decimo per quandain Indenturam gerentem datam eisdem
die et anno factam inter pre fat um Adrianum Stokes per nomen Adriani
Stokes de Beaumanir in Com. Leicestrie armigeri ex vna parte ac
Franciscum Carewe de Beddington in Com. Surreie militis per nomen
Francisci Carewe de Beddington in Com. Surreie armigeri et Nicholanum
Saunders de Eywell in eodem Com. Surreie armigerum ex altera parte.
Pro et in consideracione maritagii h abend! et so'emnizandi inter ipsum
Adrianum et dominam An nam Throckmorton adhunc viduam et nupcr
antea uxorem Nicholai Throckmorton militis defuncti existentem
convenit et concessit pro se et heredibus exeCUtoribUS et administratori-
bus suis et pro eorum quoli&et ad et cum predict is Francisco Carewe
et Xicholao Saunders heredibus executoribus et adininistratoribus suis
et ad et cum eorum quoiibet. Quod ipse idem AdriailUS ante fiuem
Stokes.
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trium mensium proximo sequentium tale maritagium habitum et
solempnizatum conveiaret et assilraret predictis Francisco Carewe et
Nicholao Saunders et heredibus suistotum illud manerium de Langacre
in dicto Com. Devonie cum omnibus et singulis suis juribus membris et
pertincntiis. Ac omnia et singula alia terra tenementa et hereditamenta
ipsius Adriani quecunque situate iacentia sive existentia in Langacre
predicta et Brodecliste in dicto Com. Devonie cum omnibus et singulis
suis pertinenciis Ad vsum dictorum Adriani Stokes et domine Anne
Throkmorton et heredum de corporibus eorundem Adriani et Anne
inter eorum legittime procreandoriira et pro detectu talis existus ad
vsum Arthuri Throgmorton vnius filiorum dicte Anne ac heredum de
corpore ipsius Arthuri legittime procreandorum. Et pro defectu talis
exitus de corpore cjusdem Arthuri ad vsum Roberti Throkmorton
alterius filiorum dicte Domine Anne ac heredum de corpore ipsius
Roberti legittime procreandorum. Et pro defectu talis exitus de
corpore ejusdcm Roberti Throkmorton ad vsum rectorum heredum
prefate domine Anne Throkmorton imperpetuum. Et etiam quod
predictus Adrianus Stokes per indenturam illam ulterius concessit pro
se heredibus, etc., suis et pro eorum quolibet ad et cum prefatis
Francisco Carewe et Nicholao Saunders heredibus ac suis et ad ac cum
eorum quolibet. Quod si idem Adrianus postea ceperit in uxorcm
prefatam Dominam Annam Throkmorton et quod infra spacinm pre-
dictorum trium mensium predicta manerium terre tenementa heredita-
menta, et cetera, premissa cum eorum pertincntiis sive aliqua pars aut
parcella vel alique parcelle inde non forent sufficienter conveiate et
assurate ad separates vsus supranominatos. Quod tunc ipse idem
Adrianus et heredes sui in consideracione maritagii predicti a predicto
vndecimo die Aprilis anno xiiij* supradicto starent ut forent seisiti de
et in predicto manerio et ceteris premissis cum pertinenciis et de et
qualibet inde parte sive parcelle non conveiatis el assuratis prout
superius lit mencio ad dictos separates usus in Indentura predicta
declaratos et non ad aliquam alium usum sive ad aliquos alias usus
intenciones sive propositos aliqualiter Prout per alteram partem
Indenture prcdicte Sigillo dicti Adriani Stokes sigillate et juratoribus
predictis in evidencia ostense liquido constare poterit, etc. Et dicunt
etiam jurat ores predict i quod prefatus Adrianus Stokes postea scilicet
vicesimo die Aprilis anno decimo quarto supradicto cepit in uxorcm
dictam Dominam Annam Throckmorton et non conveiauit nec assuravit
predictum manerium ac cetera premissa cum pertinenciis nec aliquam
inde partem sive parcellam prefatis Francisco Carewe et Nicholao
Saunderes ac heredibus suis ad separates USUS supradictos. Per quod
et pretext u eonvencionum et concessionum predictorum ac vigore
cujusdam Statuti apud Westmonasterium in Com. Midd. quarto die
Februarii anno regni Domini Henrici nuper Regis Anglie octavi patris
Domine Regine nunc vicesimo scptimo di vsibus in possessione
transferendis editi et provisi prefatus Adrianus et Domina Anna
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fuerunt conjunclim seisiti de et in manerio prcdictn cum pertinenciis
in dominico sue ut de feodo talliato videlicet sibi et heredibus de
corporibus eorum inter eos legittime procreandis et pro defectum talis
exitus remanere inde prefati Arthuro Throkmorton et heredibus de
corpore ipsius Arthuri legittime procreatis et pro defectu talis exitus de
corpore ejusdem Arthuri remanere inde prefato Roberto Throkmorton
et heredibus de corpore ipsius Robert i legittime procreatis et pro
defectu talis excitus de corpore ejusdem Roberti remanere inde rcctis
heredibus dicte Dominc Anne imperpetuum. Et quod prefatis Adriano
et Anna de tali statu talliato de et in premisses sic ut prefertur seisitis
existentibus idem Adrianus de tali statu de eisdem manerio et ceteris
premissis cum pertinenciis exceptis vno mesuagio vno molendino
granatico uno gardino trescentis acris terre triginta acris prat i, centum
acris pasture et quadraginta acris jampuorum et bruere cum pertinenciis
in Longacre et Brodecliste predictis et communia pasture in Brodccliste
predicts parcellis premissorum obiit seisitus. Et quod prefata Domina
Anna ipsum supervixit et sc. tenuit et adhuc se tenet intus de et in
eisdem manerio et ceteris premissis cum pertinenciis (exceptis pre-
exceptis) per jus accrescendi et quoad pin-dicta mesuagia molendinum
granaticum gardinum trescentum acre terre tringinta acre prati centum
acre pasture quadraginta acre jampuorum et bruere et communam
pasture preexcepta. Jura tores predicti dicunt su|)cr sacramentum
suum quod in crastino Animarum anno regui dicte Domine Regine
nunc quinto decimo licencia Regia prius habita et obtenta quidam finis
levarit inter VVillelmum Hughse generosum et Hoelltim Aprice querentes
et prefatos Adrianum et Dominam Annam per nomina Adrian] Stokes
Armigeri et Anne uxoris ems deforciantes de eisdem tenementis et
communa pasture cum pertinenciis sic ut prefertus preeaeceptis per
quern quidem finem predicti Adriani et Anne rccognoverunt ilia tene-
menta et communam pasture cum pertinenciis esse jus ipsius Willelmi
Hughse ut ilia que iidem Willelmus et Hoellus habent de dono pre-
dictorum Adriani et Anne et ilia remiserunt et quietum clamaverunt de
ipsis Adriano et Anna et heredibus suis predictis Willelmo et Hoello et
heredibus ipsius Willelmi imperpetuum. Et preterea iidem Adrianus
et Anna per finem ilium concesserunt pro se et heredibus ipsius Adriani
quod ipsi warantizabunt predicto Willelmo et Hoello et heredibus
ipsius Willelmi predicta tenementa et communam pasture cum per-
tinenciis contra omnes homines imperpetuum. Et pro ilia recognitione
remissione quieta clamancia warrant ia tine et concordia iidem Willelmus
et Hoellus concesserunt predictis Adriano et Anne predicta tenementa
et communam pasture cum pertineutiis et ilia eis reddiderunt in eadem
curia Habenda et tenenda eisdem Adriano et Anne et heredibus de
corporibus suis inter eos legittime procreatis de capitalibus dominis
feodi illus per servicia (pie ad predicta tenementa et communam pasture
pertinent imperpetuum. Et si contingeret quod iidem Adrianus et
Anna obirent sine herede de corporibus suis inter le gittime procreatis
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tunc post decessum ipsorum Adrian i ct Anne predicta tenementa et
communa pasture cum pertinentiis integre remaneret rectis heredibus
ipsius Anne lmperpetuum prout per transcriptum finis illus juratoribus
predictis in evidentia ostensum plenius patet Virtute cujus iidem
Adrianus et Anne fuerunt de tenementis et communa pasture illis
seisiti in domenico suo lit de feodo talliato. Et rcmanere inde rectis
hered'.bus ipsins Anne spectante imperpetuum. Et eisdem Adriano et
Anna sic de tenementis, etc., seisitis existentibus Adrianus de tali statu
inde obiit seisitus et prefata Anna ipsum supervixit et se tenuit et
adhuc se tenet intUS in tenementis et communa pasture illis cum
pertinentiis per jus accrescendi. Et preterea juratores predicti super
sacramentum suum dicunt quod Manerium predictum ac cetera omnia
et singula premissa cum pertinentiis in Langacre et Brodecliste predicta
teneamur et tempore mortis dicti Adriani tenebantur de Domina Regina
in capite per servicium militare videlicet per decimam partem unius
feodi militis. Et quod predicta manerium, et cetera, premissa cum
pertinentiis valeant per annum in omnibus exitibus ultra reprisas
xiij//. x\\]s. Et juratores predicti ultcrius dicunt super sacramentum
suum quod predictus Adrianus Stokes obiit terciodie Novembris ultimo
preterilo. Et Willelmus Stokes est ejus trater et proximus heres. Et
quod idem Willelmus Stokes existit de etate sexaginta anuorum et
amp'.ius. Et insuper dicunt, etc.. epiod dictus Adrianus Stokes die quo
obiit non habuit neque tenuit aliqua alia sive plura terras tenementa
seu hereditamenta ill Comitatu predicto in dominico possessione rever-
cione vel servitio uec alitor quam supradictum est. In cujus rei
testimonium tarn prefatus escaetor quam Juratores predicti hujus
lnquisitionis indentata sigilla sua alternatim apposuerunl.
Datum die anno et loco supradictis.
John Stokes was Vicar of Inkbcrrow, co. Worcester,
Prebendary of Hereford, Archdeacon of Ely (1445), Precentor
of Salisbuiw (1457-67). Canon Jones,. in his Fasti Ecclcsicc
San'sbcrinisis, says the Archdeacon and Precentor were
" probably " the same person, not having seen this will ;
Prebendary of Combe and Ham ham (1457, void per
dimissioiiem). One of this name was Prebendary of Lyme
and Halstock in 1418, whom Canon Jones queries as the same
person! Where was he buried? Is there any memorial
extant of him ? Any further information concerning him will
be most acceptable.
[P.C.C. 10 GODYN.]
Testament cm Magistri Johanms Stokys, Archidiaconi Eliensis.
lu Dei nomine Amen xiv die Decembris anno Millesimo CCCCD1°
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sexagesimo sexto apud Sarura ego Johannes Stokys ecclesie Sarum
precentor et Arch idiacon ns Eliensis Compos mentis condo testamentum
menm in hnnc modum. In primo lego animam meam Deo beate Marie
et omnibus Sanctis corpusque menm scpeliendum ubi Deus disposuerit.
Item lego ecclesie parocliiali de Iukefoarowe ubi proprietarius existo
xj//. ad emendum necessaria vestimenta et eidem ecclesie ntilia. Item
lego vicario ibidem xxs. ad orandum pro anima mea et pauperibus
parochianis ibidem x\s. et nulla est reparacio ibidem ideo nichil lego
snccessori pro reparacione sed xxs. ut orct pro anima mea. Item lego
quinque fratribns pauperibus hospitalis Sancti Wulstani Wigornie \s. et
sororibns ibidem xxs. ad orandum pro anima mea et futuro snccessori
tneo ibidem pro reparacione sua xx marcas prout recepi ab executoribus
predecessoris raei dumtamen cum eadem summa sit contentus pro
reparacione ibidem alias pro legata habeatur. Et volo qnod x marce
distribuantur ibidem inter pauperiores ville pro anima mea et animabus
fundatorum et benefactorum dicte hospitalis. Et volo qnod vasa argentea
et alia enea stagnea ferrea et plumbea eidem hospitalis perpetuo re-
maneant ad valorem xli. appreciata communi estimacione. Item lego
ecclesie parocliiali de Trynge vj gobelettis inclnsi in evr' cooperto de
argento ad valorem xj//. ad emendum eidem ecclesie calices vel
necessaria eidem ecclesie perpctua remansura et snccessori mco ibidem
1. marcas vel valorem pro reparacione dumtamen sit contentus cum
eadem summa pro reparacione ibidem et alias pro non legato habeatur
et xli. pauperibus. Et lego eidem ecclesie Jamensi in dominicalibus
opere quadragesimali et Sanctis et [sic] epistolas Pauli glosatas perpetuo
ibidem remansuras ad informandum populum domtni in lege divina.
Item lego ecclesie de Hadnam1 Legeudum Aureum, sermones Vicarii
Magdalene cum discursibus parisienis et libro de Pajuro cum sermoni-
bus Willelmi in sacramentuli dextri et sinistri oculi cum ceteris contentis
fasciculum morum et Bonaventuram de vita Christi. El volo ut sint
communes inter ecclesiam de Wylberton et ipsam perpetuo ibidem
permansura ad informacionem populi. Et volo quod x marcas distri-
buantur inter paupcres parochianis de Hadnam1 et xls. apud Wilberton.
Et volo quod successor mens habcat c. marcas pro reparacione Dum-
tamen sit contentus cum eadem summa pro reparacione ibidem et alias
pro non legato habeantur. Item lego x marcas pauperibus Cantebrigie
et in comitatu. Item monialibus de Deny x\s. Et Chedrich x)s. et
fratribns Cantebrigie xls. Item lego Sandell debitum quod michi debet.
Et lego Roberto Stokys xx marcas quas debet michi Pater ejus quas si
solvere noluerit volo quod executores mei in quinque annis solvant sibi
quinque marcas. Et lego Kicardo Liling xls. et Thome Lylliug x\s. et
Johanni Soman x\s. Hujus testamenti executores facio magistrum
Johannem Stokys cognatum meum magistrum Johannem Crancbourne
et dominum Johannem Tumour ac Archiepiscopum Cantuariensen
1 Harnham.
Stokes. 301
supervisorem ejusdem et cnilibet executori suscipienti onus admin i-
stracionis x marcas lego et laborans ultruum plus habeat per advisa-
mentum aliorum executorum. Et volo quod ante omnia si aliqua per
me sint contra consensciam vel jura male recepta si probari possit vere
vel presumptive fiat restitutio omnino. Item lego cnilibet de familia
mea superius non nominato x)s. Et volo quod pompa non fiat circa
funeralia mea si distribucio fiat honorum ibidem existencium presbiteris
et clericis Residuum vero omnium honorum meorum superius non
legatorum vel inferius non dispositorum do et lego Chnsti pauperibus
ut ipsi pro me orent et quod circa ecclesias quas alias habui et opera
pietatis expendantur. Item volo specialiter inter cetera quod execu-
tores mei in levando debita de pauperibus debitoribus meus Deum
habeant pro oculis ac benigne et favorabiliter eos protractent, et si
necesse fuerit pcnsata cum pietate eorum inopia fiat eis Remissio
secundum discrecionem et racionabile judicium executorum meorum.
Codicillus Magistri Johannis Stokys addendus testamento suo prius
facto. In primis legavit pauperibus Sarum x\s. distribuendum. Item
pauperibus de Combe vjj. xiijc/. Item vicario de Combe predicta xiijj.
iiij^. Item legavit domino Johauni Trechei' ad orandum pro ipso
vj//. xiijs. iiijrf. Item domino Willemo Mayon xxs. Item Johanni
Weeld si velit presbiterari vj//. xiijj. iiij^/. Item Thome Lyllinge
durante vita sua ultra in1 quod pauperes fratres hospitalis sancti
Wulstani Wigorniensis percipcre consueverunt omni septimana ij</.
Item legavit Thome Lamport dimidium debiti sui quod dictus Thomas
debet sibi. Item remisit Thome Bonor xxli. ita quod solvat residuum.
Item remisit Priori et conventui de Ely xli. de debito quod dicti Prior
et conventus debeut sibi. Item remisit monalibus de Denuey totum
debitum quod sibi debent. Item remisit totum debitum Ewbanke.
Item remisit fratribus ordinis Sancti Francesci Sarum totum debitum et
ultra legavit eisdem xxs. Item legavit fratribus nigris ibidem XXJ".
Item legavit fratribus ecclesie Cathedralis Sarum xli. Item magistro
Johannis Stokys, Waited Stokys, et matri eorundem cnilibet eorum
\xv')S. viijc/. Item remisit domino Scroupe milite xli. ita quod solvat
residuum. Item remisit Henrico Newman xli., ita quod solvat residuum.
Item remisit domino Johanni Willoughby c. marcas et omne illud quod
pauperes tcnentes ibidem propter inopiam juxta discrecionem vicarii in
hac parte probabilem solvere non possunt. Item remisit Johannem
Parrokes unacum donacione per prius xx marcas. Item legavit domino
Ricardo Golafre capellano de Tryng x\s. Item legavit Johauni Horton
ibidem xxs. Item legavit vicariis ecclesie Cathedralis Sarum . . . .l
Item remisit Archiepiscopo Cantuariesi omne debitum pro quo nulla est
obligacio facta sive scripta. Item remisit eidem Archiepiscopo sive
perdonavit de debito pro quo est obhgatus c marcas pro dimissione
testamenti sui. Item remisit magistro Thome Bury xMi. ita quod solvat
Jttank in Register.
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residuum. Item legavit pauperibus commorantibus in villis et parochiis
de Middleton, Catstoke, Stokewake et Denham sex marcas eis dis-
ponendas secundum disci;ecionem executorum suorum. Item legavit
parochianis capelle de Westovere ;:i parochiis de Gyllingham penes
invencionem vnius capellam i:: dicta capella ceiebraturi sibi solvendus
per x annos x marcas videlicet quolibet anno x'x'xjs. iiijV. Item legavit
prefato Domino Johanni Tumour Capellano librum Decretalium Sextium
et Clementinum optimum et xx/7. in pccunia numerata vei valorem
earundem. Item legavit collegio animarum omnium fidelium deluncto-
rum de Oxonia Johannem in Xovelia ;i;i)er vjto. Item de Butrio [?]
super tercio et quinto Decretalibus. Item legavit magistro Johannis
Lydford vnum capicium penulatum. Item remisit domino VVillelmo
Berewyk capellano x\s. in quibus obligator eidem. Item legavit
magistro Wilielmo Saundir Augustijuun de Civitate Dei sub hac con-
dicione quod non venderet sed quod donaret eum tali qui sciat occupare
eundem.
[Proved at Lambeth 9 February in abovesaid year.]
THE CHRYSOM BOOK OF ST. THOMAS, NEW SARUM.
(Continued from p. 2 11. )
From the Annu'ciacon of the Yirgine Marve unto the
feast of St. Jon Baptyst, Ao. Dni. 15S3.
Tho. Coopers vviffe churched the xxvii of Marche, the crysome, vd.%
offringe, ob. ; Maud Poldon, the wiffe of Tho. Poldon, churched the
xxvii of Marche, her crisom, vd., < iffrin ge, ob. ; Whites wiffe, the first ol
Apriell, her crisom, v\d.t her ofringe, \d.6b.qr.\ Lewes Reddes wiffe
churched the iii of Aprell. her crisi rrt, vid?., ofringe, Wd. ; John Leysandes
wiffe churched the thirde of Aprell. her crisom, vid., her ofringe, Wd. ob. ;
George Castles wiffe churched the x of Apriell, her crisom, vid., her
ofringe, id. ob. ; John Ewestice wiffe churched the xx of Aprell, her
crisom, vid., her ofringe, \d. ob. ; Androwe Markes marryed t<> Anne
Neale the xxv daie of Aprell, there offringe, xmd. ob. qr. ; John Chyvers
the same daie to Susan Bryante, there ofringe, wd. ; John Mathew
marryed to Joane Clarke, there offringe, Hvxd., 29th ; Edwarde Titch-
burnes wiffe churched the xxixth of Aprell, her crysom, vt i;/., her
offringe, \Y\\d. ob. qr. ; (Mail) Nicholas Elyatts wiffe churched the
seconde of Maii, her crisom, viidl, her offringe, vd.', John Atkins wiffe
churched the xxii of Maii, her crisom, vid., her otTringe. vi if/. ; James
Abnies witTe churched the xxiii of Maii [the childe dead], her ofringe,
Vid. ; Nicholas Rudgleyes vviffe churched the xxix of May. her crisom.
v\d.; her offringe, xd. ob. ; John Fluddes wiffe churched the xxxth of
Maii [the childe deade], her offringe, id. ; I tin. : Tho. Frani.cs maryed to
The Chrysom Booh of St. Thomas, New Sarum. 303
Edith [ ] the seconde of June, there offringe, \\\\d. ob. ; Ales Mi lies
churched the viith of June, her crisom. xd. ; Richarde Parsons marryed
to Ales Roberts the x oi June, there offringe, xd. qr. ; W illiam Ledges
wiffe churched the xiii of June, her crysom, x\d., her offringe, \d. ob.;
John Abbotts wiffe churched the xvii of June [the childe departid], Hid.
Sum, xiii.?. \\\d. ob.
Re'd by me, Mathewe Conmin, the xxiii day of June.
From St. John Baptist to St. Mychl tharcangell, Ao. Dni.
The Master Tailors offringe the last oi June, and the Jurneymen
the first of Julye, \\s. ixd. ; Steven Talbots wife churched the xi of Julye
[the childe deceassed], her offringe, vd. ob. ; Nich. Whuttonses wiffe
churched the xiii of July, her chrisome, xxd., her offringe, wild, qr. ; Tho.
Sheppcrde maryed the xv of Julye, his offringe, xvid. (jr.; George
Inglishes wiffe churched the xxv of Julye, her crisom, x\d., her offringe,
iid. ob. qr. ; Willm. Eatons wiffe churched the third of August, her
crisom, x'\d., her offringe, iid. ; VVillyam Acrycs wiffe and Willm. Glovicrs
wiffe churched the xvii of August, there crysomes. x'ud., and Urn., there
offrings, xd ob. qr. ; John Jonson maryed to Erne Ratie the xix of
August, there ofringe, Vmd. ob. ; Wolfecanke Rowlyes wiffe churched
the xxviii of August, her crisom, vie/., her offringe, iii<7. ob. ; Richarde
Ricesse wiffe churched the last of August [the child deceassed], her
offringe, xd. ; Tho. Chouches wiffe churched the same daie, her crisom,
vi^., her offringe, \\\\d.\ Thomas Daughton maryed the first of Septem-
ber, his offringe, us. ; Richarde Belle marryed to Ales Cornishe the
seconde of September, ther offringe, iij. ; Roberte Bowres wiffe churched,
the ii of September [the childe deceassed], her offringe, vd. ob.; John
Tanners wiffe churched the iiiith of September [the child is dead], her
offringe, lid. ; Oliver Powelles wiffe churched the ix of September, her
crisome, viiie/. ; her offringe, \d. ob.; Roberte [over William erased]
Smythes wiffe in the Otmeale Rowe, churched the xi of September, her
crisom, x'ud., her offringe, uud. ob. ; Edwarde Godfreyes wiffe churched
the xx of September [her child dead], olfringe, \u\d. qr. ; receavid for
the weddinge of John Carye and Avis Michells, his offringe, lis.,
xxi September ; Thomas Huntes wiffe churched the xxi of September,
her crisom, x\d., offringe, \i\d.\ Willm. Slowes wiffe churched the same
daie, her chrisom, iiiic/., her offringe, ii</. ; I. Fauckners wiffe churched
the xxvii of September [the child deceassed], her offringe, \d. qr. Sum
partem Mich, t 5S3, xxi*.
Receved by me, Mathew Conemyne, for meghallmas quarter, the
sume of xxi^.
From St. Mich, to the Nativitic of Or Lorde, Anno Dni.
Receaved for the ofringe of Willm. Whytte at liis marriage the
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xxx of September, xv'nid. ob. qr. ; receaved lor the offringe of Augustine
Goldesborowe the xxx of September, xixd. ; Willm. Ashes wiffe
churched the iiid of October, her crisom, vie/., her offringe, id. ; Willm.
Foster marryed to Joane Rawlins the vth of October; Edmund Warrens
wiffe churched the vii of October [the childe deadj, her offringe, \\d. ;
Willm. VVinser to Joane Gilberte the xth of October, there offringe,
mid. ob. (jr.; Edward Miller) marryed to Bridget Holmes, the
xxth of October, his offringe, iis. xid. ; Willm. Nobles wiffe churched
the xxii of October, her crisom, v\d., her offringe, id. ob. ; John Fluddes
wiffe churched the same daie, her crisom. xid., her offringe, id. ; John
Venardes wiffe churched the xxvi of October, her crisom, viidf., her
offringe, v\\\d.\ John Stevens wiffe churched the xxii of October, her
crisom, iiiic/., her offringe, id. ; Markes Furlongs wiffe churched the
xxvii of October, her crisom, xui., her offringe, iid. ; John Shepperds
wiffe churched the xxxi of October, her crisom, vid.t her offringe, \\d. ;
Willm, Bartholomewes wiffe churched the same daie, her crisom, vid.t
her offringe, id. ; James Harvy marryed to Agnes Haynes, there
offringe, ixd. ; Itm. : Tho. Willis wife churched the vi of November, her
crisom, xiid., her offringe, 'mid. ; John Clark's wiffe churched the same
daie, her crisom, yd., her offringe, iid.', Anthonie Walker marryed to
Janne Randall, wydowe, the xi of November, ys offeringe, xiid.; John
Clements wiffe puryfyed the xvii of November, her crisom, xid., her
offringe, iiid. ; Marks Fane marryed to Mary Sturton the xxiiii of
November, ys offringe, vd. ; the wiffe of Thomas Pressy churched the
xxvii of November, her crisom, vid., offringe, iid. ob. ; John Dyapcr
marryed to Joane Deane the secondc ol December, ther offringe, xiiiW. ;
James Gallyes wiffe churched the iiii daie of December, her crisom,
vid., her offringe, vid. ; Nich. Talbotts wife, now wydow, churched the
vi of December, her crisom, vie/., her offringe, \i\d.\ Tho. Brimble
marryed to Anne Spickernell, there offringe, iis. iid. ; Mr. Messengers'
wiffe1 churched the xvi of December, her crisom, xiid. ; Tho. Titchburnes
wiffe churched the xix of December, crysom, vid., her offringe, vid.
Sum Totis ys Dmino nat Din., xxvs. xd.
Re'd by me, Mathus Commyne, xxvs. xd.
From the Natyvitie of Or Lorde unto the Ann'ciacon of
the Virgirie Marye, Anno Dni 1583.
John Odell marryed to Fine Shingleton the last of December, there
offringe, xid. ; Willm. Roberts wiffe churched the iii of Januare, her
crisom, xid., her offringe, iid. ob. ; John Perkins wiffe and Willm. Ashes
wiffe churched the iiii of Januarye, yr crisoms, viiid., yr offrings, \i't ob. ;
Thomas Morkuuh.'s wiffe churched the vi of Januarye, her crisom, vid.,
her offringe, ob. ; Richard Danyelles wiffe churched the xiiii of Januarye,
1 Mother of Massengcr the playwright.
Quakerism in Wiltshire.
her crisom, iiii<£, her offringe, ob. ; Tho. Bassett marryed to Edith Udall
the xxth ot Januarie, there offringe, xvd. ob. ; Roberte [ ] marryed
to Dorathy Thornbury the- same daie, the offringe, xid. ob. ; Hcwe
Tompsons wiffe churched the same daie, her crisom, v\d., her offringe,
ob. ; John Roberts wiffe churched the xxii of Januarie, her crisom, vid.,
her offringe. iid. ob. ; George Katons wiffe churched the xxv of Januarie,
her crisom, vid., her offringe, id. ; Hewhe Monnfilde marryed to Mary
Smalham the xxvii of Januarie, yr offringe, xxd. ; John Chente marryed
to Collis Waters the vi of February, the offringe, \ v.:d. ; Thomas
Bennetes wiffe churched the vii of February, her cri.-'.m. vid., her
offringe, \ud. ob. qr. ; James Stewarde marryed to Aies Colman the x of
February, yr offringe, iih,/. ob. ; VVillm. Tour.sendes w ::V ci-urched the
xiii of February, her crisom, iihVtf. ; George Masters wine churched the
xix of Februarye, her crisom, vid., her offringe, hi;/. ; Nicholas Nailers
wiffe churched the xx of Februarye, her crisom, vd., her offringe, \d. ob. ;
Raphe Tyres wiffe churched the xxii of Februarye, her crisom, iiiirt?., her
offringe, \\d. ; Phillip Cissell marryed unto Marye Humfrey the xxiii of
Februarye, yr offringe, vid.] Gilles Fremans wiffe churched the xx of
Februarye, her crisom, vd., her offringe, lid. ; Tho. Tovye marryed to
Jane Secures the xxv of Februarye, there offringe, xxiiuf.; John Lung-
mans wiffe churched the xxvii of Februarye [the child deceassed], her
offringe, id. ob.
Edmund R. Nevill.
(To be continued.)
QUAKERISM IN WILTSHIRE.
BURIALS.
(Continued jrom p. 254.J
H.
At Tetherton, Mary Hillier, late of Avon, died
at Pickwick, widow of George Hillier.
At Redclift in Bristol, and in 1775-6-8, at Pick-
wick, Elizabeth i Iarman, of London, died at
Budge raw, near 1 lot Wells, wife of Jeremiah
I Iarman, and dau. of Ezekicl Dickinson, of
Bowdcn I louse.
At Pickwick, Hannah Humphrys, of Corsham.
At Melksham, Thomas Hunt, of Holt, late of
Challield, son of Henry Hunt, age about 19.
At Melksham, John Hunt, of Holt, age 47.
x
1770-1-24.—
177S-3-10.—
1778-12-2.-
17S0-10-S.—
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1 780- 1 1 -5. — At Calne, Isaac Hunt, of Bcsthook, nr. Calne,
age 47.
1 781- 1 -3 1. — At Pickwick, Jeremiah Harman, of London, died
at the Hot Wells, nr. Bristol.
1782- 8-20.— At Marlbro', Marv Harris, died at Marlbro', dau.
of John Willis, of Marlbro', age 34. N.M.
1785-4-25. — At Goatacre, Robert Hill, of Catcomb, age 100.
1787-6-3.— At Melksham, Jacob Hunt, of Holt, co. of Wilts,
son of [ ] and Betty Hunt, of Great
Chalficld, age 70.
1 787-8-5. — At Melksham, Grace Hunt, of Holt, co. of Wilts,
sister of Jacob Hunt, age 65.
1789-5-22. — At Broomham, Thomas Hunt, of Rowdc, co. of
Wilts, age 76.
1789-S-14. — At Melksham, Samuel Hipsley, of Melksham, co.
of Wilts, baker, age 41.
1789-8-16.— At Melksham, Elizabeth Hunt, of Holt, co. of
Wilts, widow, age 100.
1789- S-26. — At Melksham, Robert Hipslky, parents at Melk-
sham, co. of Wilts, son of Samuel Hipsley,
age 9.
1 790- 1-31.— At Broomham, Mary Hunt, of Roud, co. of Wilts,
wife of Thomas Hunt, age 77.
1 79 1 - 7-30. — At Pickwick, Henry Hopkins, parents at West
Wells, Pickwick, co. of Wilts, son of Henry
Hopkins, age 2.
1797- 4-23. — At Melksham, Henry Hunt, of Holt, co. of Wilts,
baker, age 70.
1798- 10-2S.— At Pickwick, Mary Hopkins, of West Wells, ph.
of Corsham, co. Wilts, wife of Henry
Hopkins, age 36.
1802-5-28. — At Broomham, Henry Horseman, of Broomham,
co. of Wilts, age 23. N.M.
1809-1-1S.— At Melksham, Lydia Hipsley, of Melksham, co.
of Wilts, widow of Samuel I lipsley, age 62.
1809-10-1. — At Mars ton, near Malbro', Joseph Haskins, of
Isle of Man, traveller, died at Overton, near
Malbro', co. of Wilts, age 38.
1824-8-4.— At Melksham, John Hunt, of Holt, co. of Wilts,
age 63. N.M.
Quaker ism in Wiltshire. 307
1829-6-3. — At Melksham, Samuel Hipsley, of Melksham, co.
Wilts, baker, age 56.
j-
1 701-8- 1 6. — Katherine JefferYs, of ph. of Box/wife of 'John
Jeflferys.
*i705-3-i4. — Nehemiah James, son of Phillip James.
*i7oS-2-26.- — Mary Jones, of Chippenham, dau. of John and
Ester Jones.
* 1 7 1 1 . — John Jones, of Derhee, ph. of Chippenham.
* 1 7 1 1-3 — . — John Jones, of Chippenham.
*i7 1 1-5-27. — Esther Jones, of Chippenham, widdow.
* 1 7 1 4 -. — Joseph Jones, of Chippenham.
1716-11-27. — At Comerwcll, Rachell Jones, of Bradford Meet-
ing, dau. of Edward and Ann Jones.
^"17 1 7 - 1 1-27. — Peter Jay, jun., of Bromham.
*i 72 1-6- 1 8. — Benjamin James, of Devizes, son of John and
Jane James.
1724-2-20. — Edward Jefferys, of Naish Mouse, ph. of Brimhill.
1726-5-1.— At Bradford, Ann Jones, wife of Ed Jones, and
dau. of John Clerk.
*i 727-9-20. — John James, of Devizes.
1728 . — Margaret Jones, of Chippenham, widdow.
1733-12-14. — Mary Jefferies, of Corsham, widdow of Wm
Jefferies, a Minister.
*i 737/8-1-19. — Lucy Jefrys, of Calne.
1739-8-28. — At Titherton, David Jeffrvs, of Whitley, in
Melksham ph.
1741-4-26. — Rachel Jones, of Chippenham.
1744-4-25. — At Chippenham, Joseph Jones.
1751- 6-6.— At Calne, Jane Jefferys, late of Whitly, in Melk-
sham ph., widdow of David Jefferys.
1752- 8-5.— At Tetherton, Elizabeth Jefferys, of Whitby, wife
of Thomas Jefferys.
1758- 2-1 7.— At Pickwick, John Jefferys, late of Westminster.
1759- 3-26. — At Tetherton, Lydia Jefferys, of Whitley, wife
of Thomas Jefferys, sent".
1759-6-8. — At Chippenham, Rebecca Jefferys, of Whitley,
wife of Thomas Jefferys, junr.
x 2
3o8
*i 761-1-20. — Richard James, of Devizes, son of Richd and
Sarah James.
1763-10-12. — At Chippenham, John Jones, of Derry Hill, nr.
Chippenham.
1763-10-12. — At Chippenham, Betty Jones, of Derry Hill, nr.
Chippenham.
1765-3-22. — At Melksham, Mary Jeffervs, of Whitley, wife
of Edwrt JclTerys and dau. of John Moxham.
1 772-2- 1 6. — At Melksham, Catherine Jeefervs, of Whitley,
ph. of Melksham, dan. of Edward and
Catha* Jefterys, age 19 months.
1 772- 10-17. — At Titherington, Hannah Jefferys, of Whitley,
ph. of Melksham, dau. of Thomas Jefferys.
1776-1-7. — At Tetherton, Thomas Jeffervs, of Whitley, ph.
of Melksham, age 50.
1780- 1-21. — At Melksham, Robert Jeffervs, of Melksham,
son of Robert and Mary Jeffervs, age 157.
1781 .—At Tetherton, H[ ] Jeffervs, late of Melk-
sham, died at Charlcot, widow of Thomas
Jefferys, age So.
1784-12-12. — At Salisbury, Mary Jenkins, of Salisbury, co. of
Wilts, wife of Robert Jenkins and dau. of
Daniel R}']ey, age 30.
1 794-5-2 1. — At Melksham, Edward Jeffervs, junr., of Melk-
sham, co. of Wilts, son of Edward and
Katherine Jeffervs, age 20.
1 798- 5-22. — At Melksham, Martha Jesup, dau. of Benjamin and
M a r t h a j e s u p, o f \ Y ood b r i d ge, S u fib 1 k , a ge 2 2 .
1799- 1 i-i. — At Melksham, Edward Jeffervs, of Melksham, co.
of Wilts, age 75.
1800- 5-7. — At Melksham, Alexander Jeffervs, of Melksham,
co. of Wilts, son of Thomas and Martha
Jefferys, age 15 months.
1 804- 1 2-30.— At Melksham, Robert Jeffervs, of Melksham,
co. of Wilts, age 83.
1805- 4-16. — At Melksham, Mary Jefferys, late of Melksham,
co. of Wilts, widow of Robert Jefferys.
1S06-10-19. — At Melksham, Thomas Jefferys, junr., of Melk-
sham, co. of Wilts, son of Thomas and
Martha Jefferys, age 9 months.
Norman Penney.
(To be continued.)
Some old Wiltshire Clocks and Clockmakers.
SOME OLD WILTSHIRE CLOCKS AND CLOCKMAKERS.
The following notes — the outcome of occasional jottings
of names and dates from old clocks by Wiltshire makers —
may not, it is hoped, be without some little interest to the
readers of Wills N. & (J. In addition to the professional
clockmakers in the principal towns, we find men of the
eighteenth century, or earlier, who, in obscure and out of
the wa}' hamlets — as at Eastcott and Lydcway (in Urchfont),
Horton (in Bishop's Cannings), or Nursteed (in South-
broom) — sons of the village carpenter, or, it may be, the
village blacksmith himself, who, with meagre advantages in
the way of education, but with a natural mechanical genius,
became the clockmakers of their several localities, establish-
ing businesses which were carried on successively by them-
selves and their descendants for several generations. Of
such were Jacob, Joel, and John Ettry, of Horton ; Charles,
Evi, and John Raymond, of Lydeway; and doubtless others —
whose good work yet remaining is a memorial more lasting
even than the inscription on their gravestones.
In the unique mechanical clock preserved in the north
transept of Wells Cathedral the adjoining county of Somerset
possesses perhaps the earliest example of the clockmaker'.^
art. It is traditionally known as the work of Peter Light foot,
a monk of Glastonbury, about 1325. Its circular dial
represents the hours of the day and night, the phases of
the moon, and other astronomical details. At the top are
mounted figures of knights which revolve round a centre at
the striking of the hours, whilst a seated figure in the angle of
the transept, connected with the clock by rods, proclaims both
hours and quarters with blows from its foot against a bell.
Another Somersetshire example, of much later date, is the line
clock in the Grand Tump Room, at Bath, which was given to
that city, in 1709, by Thomas Tompion, of London, who is
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
said to have been originally a farrier, and is known as u(he
father of English clockinaking".
In our own county, and not far from the borders of
Somerset, we find in the hall at Longleat a famous astro-
nomical clock, said to be one of three made some century and
a half ago by a Wiltshireman — Edward Cocke}-, of Warminster.
It goes for three months at a time without winding.
At Eastwell House, Pottcrne, is also a fine old astronomical
clock, playing tunes at the quarters. It has a handsome brass
dial, with open works, and large inlaid wooden case, and bore
the name of a Salisbury clockmaker painted on the brasswork
of the dial, but this has recently disappeared during the process
of cleaning. This clock is said to have been won as a prize
through a lottery ticket purchased many years ago by a
member of the I Iunt-Grubbe family. It was valued at
The Clockmaker's Company obtained its Charter from
Charles I,1 22 August 1631 ; but very few Wiltshire names occur
in the list of Freemen. On some of the earlier clocks and
watches the name inscribed was that of the owner; but, in
1777, an Act of Parliament required the name and place of
abode of the maker to be engraved.
Later on, in 1797, a tax was imposed on all persons in
possession of clocks and watches, which, seriously decreasing
the demand, and consequent!}' depriving thousands of persons
of employment, was hastily repealed in the following year.
1 Among the Morrison MSS. at Fonthill is a warrant, dated 23 June
ir»4cJ (some rive months after the execution of Charles I), from the Com-
mittee of Public Revenue to Thos. Fauconbridge, Esq., Receiver General,
authorising the payment by him to Mr. Edward East, a London watchmaker,
of £40 "for a gold watch and larnni made for the late King Charles by
directions of the Karl of Pembroke, by order of the Committee, and delivered
to the late King's use the 17th .January last".
[The King's execution took place on 30 January lti-JO, thirteen days
after the delivery of the watch. Philip, 1th Karl of Pembroke, had been
Lord Chamberlain to Charles I, but afterwards sided with the Parliament.
He entertained the Protector Oliver at his house at Ramsbury, Wilts,
12 July 1649. ]
Sonic old Wiltshire Clocks and Clock n inkers. 3 1 i
To this obnoxious tax is ascribed the introduction of a new
kind of clock — for many innkeepers of the day, anticipating
the difficulty of obtaining correct time, adopted a bold mural
timepiece, which the}- placed in a prominent position for
the benefit of their customers. These u Act 0/ Parliament
Clocks'', as they were called, had a large wooden dial, generally
painted black, with gilt figures, not covered by a glass, and a
small case beneath enclosing the pendulum. At Devizes two
of these clocks are still to be found in good working order —
one at the "Bear'' Hotel, which has no maker's name, the other
in the bar at the "Castle". The latter is by a -Marlborough
maker (George Hewett), and more elaborately decorated, the
front of the pendulum case having a small reproduction in
oil, apparent!}' of the well-known picture by Reynolds of
David Garrick between the two muses, Tragedy and Comedy;
Mr. Edmund Schomberg, of Seend, also possesses one, signed
"Wm. Gilbert, Gosport", a ship in full sail being painted on
the case.
The following alphabetical list of Wiltshire makers'
names is collected chiclly from grandfather clocks of a date
earlier than the middle of the last century. As a first attempt
it is, of course, by no means exhaustive, and any additions or
corrections will be thankfully received for insertion in the
pages of Wilts N. & O.
Amcsbury.
Hunt, George [white dial].
Bradford.
Blatchley, Thomas [a line clock, with silvered dial
plate].
Bullock, W.
Hopkins Edward [brass dial curiously engraved].
Another clock with brass dial and silvered
circles.
Rudd, Edward.
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Cahic.
Gauntlett, —
Chippenham.
Alexander, R.
King, Alfred [before 1838].
Markes, Isaac.
Smith, George.
Stainsbury, Robert [1698].
Corshani.
Bullock, T.
Devizes.
Brittan, Meshach [a fine clock].
Two, generations of this name appear to have carried on
business in St. Mary's parish. The following entries occur
in the Registers : —
"Meshak Britten and Elizabeth Paradice wase maried ye
13 of April 1708.''
"Meshek, son of Meshek Britten wase baptiz'd ye 28 of
March 1713, and of Elizabeth his wife."
67. Mary's Register.
"Meshek Brittan and Mary Mortemer1 w;isc maried ye
8 of October 1734." St. Johns Register.
"Meshach, son of Meshach and Mary Brittan, baptized
28 November 1741." St. Mary %s Register.
Cox, William [1790-1804].
Had lease of house No. 1, St. John's Street.
Gilkcs, Richard2 [1779-1794]-
The Quaker Records of this date contain births of several
children of Richard and Letitta Gilkes, of Devizes, clock
and watch maker— in St. John's parish 1779-17S1— after-
wards in St. Mary's.
1 Daughter of William Mortimer, baker, of No. 1, Little Rrittox, the
court adjoining which is still known as " Mortimer's Court". He was the
noted maker in his day of Simnel Cahes, a local production for which
Devizes has long been celebrated.
2 A Richard Gilkes belonged to the Clockmaker'fl Company of London
in 1G8G. Britten gives "Gilkes, John, Shipston, on plate of watch, Mary
Gilkes on dial, hall mark 17GG''.
Sonic old Wiltshire Clocks and Clockmakers. 313
Gilkes, Benjamin Gilbert.
■ Son of Richard. Born S November 17S3. Two children
of Benjamin Gilbert and Marian Gilkes, watch maker, horn
in St. Mary's parish 1805-6. Quaker Records.
Gough, William [1720].1
"Watch, 1720 — in each of the pillars a niche containing a
silver statue."- Britten.
Harrison, William.
On a paper from the outer case of an old watch, in
the possession of the writer : —
"On a watch.
:,>■•«-
CqHlp hut our tempers move like this machine,
Not argil by passion, nor delay'd by spleen,
And true to nature's regulating power,
By virtuous acts distinguish every hour;
Then health and joy would follow as they ought,
The laws of motion and the laws of thought,
Sweet health to pass the present moments o'er.
And everlasting Joy when Time shall be no more."
"All sorts of Cocksand Watches clean'd and repair'd by
Wm. Harrison, Devizes."
Hunt, Henry.
Disposed of his business in the Market Place, Devizes,
to Alfred King, of Chippenham, in 1S38.
Advertisement in "Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette".
Jarrod, J.
Rogers, Thomas [1783].
Russell, Patrick [silvered dial plate].
Sayer, William [a very old brass faced clock, without
casej.
The name occurs in a Devizes petition of 1660, and again
in a loyal address from the Mayor, Burgesses, and Inhabi-
tants of the Borough, to King William III, on the discovery
of a supposed plot tor his assassination, in 1695-6.--
II'. X. & Q. (Quarterly Part, March 1909), p. 200.
1 Gough, William. London; watch 174"> ; also a curious touch watch in
the Guildhall Museum, eirea 1760. Britten.
2 Old Clocks and Wetcht*, and their Makers, by F. J. Britten ; 2nd
edition, 1S9'J.
3 M Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Stratton, John [living at No. n, Market Place,
1814-32].
West, Robert [brass dial].
Wilkins, William.
Wilks [Gilkes?],
The Melbourne Daily Argus, in the report of a sale of
art treasures there (1S96). mentions "a grandfather clock,
by Wilks, of Devizes, 200 years old, with a set of chimes,
which found a purchaser for /.50".
Williams, Edward [living in St. John's Street 1819].
Easlcott [in Urchfont\.
Keyte, Thomas [ 1 7 1 o— a 30-hour clock].
His marriage — the occasion most probably of his settling
here — is thus recorded in the Urchfont Parish Register: —
1710, Dec. 21. "Thomas Keite, of Woddercham, co.
Glouc, and Hester Piggott, of Escott."
HU per ton.
Swayne, Henry [1714].
The following occurs among tin- allegations for marriage
licences in the Diocese of Bath and Wells: —
'"Swayne, Henry, of Hilperton, Wilts, clockmaker, and
Mary Tily, of Laverton, widow. Bondman, John Yerbury,
of Laverton, yeoman. 16 June 1714."
Norton [in Bishop's Cannings].
Ettry, Jacob.
„ Joel [living 1760].
„ John.
The marriage of John Itterie. of Horton, husbandman,
occurs in the Bishop's Cannings Parish Register as early
as 1625. Later on, from the time of the Commonwealth
downwards, we find that several members of the family
were village carpenters. Jerom, son of Isaac Ettry, carpen-
ter, was tor 42 years Parish Clerk, and was buried on New
Year's Day 1797, having reached the ripe age 61 S2.
Of the Horton clockmakers we find Jacob the son of
John Ettry, carpenter, baptized iS Jan. 1710; Jacob Ettry,
So file old Wiltshire Clocks and Clock makers. 315
and Catherine Weston,1 both of Bishop's Cannings, married
31 Dec. 172S; and Jacob, son of Jacob and Catherine Ettry,
baptized 6 Oct. 1732. There is reason to suspect that one
of these migrated into Hampshire, lor the dial plate of a
fine clock of the William III period bears the name
of ''Jacob E/try, Rurnsey".
Joel Ettry, the second Morton clockmaker, married, in
1751, Hannah, daughter of John and Mary Shipman, of
Allcannings.2 He was buried at Bishop's Cannings in 1786.
Village tradition represents him as " cunning" also in
astrology, and much sought after and consulted by his
neighbours and others in matters of weather lore, the cast-
ing of nativities, and such like. 01' his clocks, one belong-
ing to Dr. Tayler, of Trowbridge, represents the work of a
master hand, having two mechanical figures, or "Jacks",
which strike the bell. In 1760 we find him engaged in re-
pairing the church clock at Little Chiverell, and his bill on
this occasion, now in possession of the writer, is an inter-
esting relic of the eighteenth century Wiltshire clockmaker,
as seen in his memoranda. It is written in a bold clear
hand :—
" 1760. Churchwardens of Little Chiverl. Dr. to Joel
Ettry for Repairing the Church Clock, sloping both hoels
of the Varge Scaping the Pallets turning and toping the
Crown wheal Stoping the second wheal hoels and new
plant itt macking a new spring for ye diel wheal stoping
both hoels of the flcy stoping both hoels of the hoop wheal
and new running the worke stoping the bottom wheal hoel
and Repairing the locking Spring f i is. od.
"December 16th Rs'd of Mr. Ax ford ye lull contents
of this bill Rs'd by nice Joel Ettry"
Of John Ettry— the third clockmaker of the Horton
family— much less is at present known. The following
entry in the Bishop's Cannings Register may be that of his
baptism : —
"1716-17. John, son of John and Grace Ettry, baptized
26 Feb."
1 There is a pedigree of Weston, of Cannings, in the Herald's Visitation
of a.d. 1G23. Catherine Ettry [nee Weston] appears to have been buried
7 January 1777.
2 A name found abundantly in the Allcannings Register 1600-1800,
and at Bishop's Cannings 1710- ISO". John Simms, alias Shipman, and
Mary Godinan were married at Allcannings 3J January 171."), and their
daughter Hannah (afterwards Mrs. Ettry) baptized i July 1718. She
was buried at Bishop's Cannings 1 June 1788.
$'6
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Lavington.
Jackson, Henry.
Lydeway [in Urchfont].
Raymond, Charles.
Evi.
James.
The name of Raymond, alias Samuel, or Samme, is of
frequent occurrence: in the Parish Registers of Etchil-
hampton and Urchfont from at least 1630 downwards.
Charles Raymond, or Samme, and Sarah Cook, or Kin man,
both of Stert, were married at Urchfont 21 April 1740, and
from these appear to have descended the clockmakers at
Lydeway- three of whom carried on business there during
the next century.
Their dwelling-house — a low but somewhat picturesque
looking thatched building, stood close to the roadside,
about three miles from Devizes. A clock, with diamond
shaped wooden dial over the doorway, bore the date
"a.d. 1773", and, connected with works inside, denoted the
business carried on within. Later on, the house was con-
verted into a wayside inn, by the name of "The Clock",1
which still remains over the entrance. Within the last
few years an upper storey has been added, and the building
altogether much altered. "The Clock", too, which was
out of order, has been recently repaired.
Charles Raymond, the first individual who gained
notoriety here, was the maker of a good type of clocks,
some of which, having brass dials with embossed comers,
or spandrils, outside the circle, and still in good condition,
are to be found in tin; immediate neighbourhood. The
Stert Parish Register thus records his marriage:—
" 1762, 17 January. Charles Sam, or Raymond, clock-
maker, and Ann Alexander, spinster."
We also find in the same year, at Stert, the following
entry : —
" 1762, 13 August. James Raymond, clockmaker, and
Ann Mannings, of Urchfont, spinster."
Lastly we have, in the Urchfont Register, the marriage
of Evi Raymond and Mary Snook, by licence, on the
1 And as such it continued in the hands of tin; Raymond family until
about 30 years ago, when Elizabeth Raymond, the last landlady of that
name, died, and was buried at iStert.
Sonic old Wiltshire Clocks and Clock makers. 317
17 January 181 1 — singularly enough the same day and
month as that of his ancestor Charles Raymond, forty-nine
years before.
Malmcsbury.
Morse, —
Marlborough.
Bevan, Thomas.
Gough, — [see also Devises].
Hewett, George [1797-1S05].
A maker of good clocks, one of which, on a brass dial
with embossed corners, has an engraved landscape in the
centre, and in an open circle above, lettered " Tcnifrus
fugit",z figure of Time, with scythe, swaying to and fro
with the pendulum. In one of Hewett's clocks the writer
found the following on a printed paper pasted inside the
door :—
"Geo. Hewett, Organ Clock-maker, Repeating and
Common Watchmaker, Goldsmith and Jeweller, At the
Dial and Crown, near the Market House. Marlborough.
(Successor to the late Mr. Gough).1 Makes all sorts of
Machine Organ Clocks, Weight or Spring (to play a First
and Second) in a very compleat and pleasing manner, with
any Motion of the Heavens— Also Repeating, Horizontal,
and Common Watches, either in Gold, Silver, or Metal. &c.
—Also Jewellers Work, either in Diamonds, Stone, or
paste; and all kinds of Mourning Rings, with Expedition —
Likewise large Plate, curiously wrought, or plain; and all
sorts of small Work in Gold or Silver.
" Watches and Clocks repaired in the compleatest
Manner and on the shortest Notice.
*#* "He also gives the best Prices for Old Gold and
Silver, Gold and Silver Lace, Jewels &c."
Marlborough, printed by J. Smith.
An " Act of Parliament Clock " (1797) at the Castle Hotel,
Devizes, already noticed, bears the name of this maker.
Mclksham.
Coombe, Joseph.
1 Gough, \V., goldsmith, appears as a .-uilerer to the amount of £1,131
in the great fire at Marlborough in 1653. He was mayor IU48-9, and again
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Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Rudd, Edward [see also Bradford].
Mere.
Avery, Kingston [1730-1763]-
His marriage with Rachel Alford, of Mere, 01121 February
1723, occurs in the Parish Register. He erected the present
Church Clock at Mere in 1740, and his name is also
occasionally found on old household clocks of the period.
The very fine iron scroll-work of the sign of the Ship Inn
at Mere is also said to have been made by him.
Nursteed [in Soiithbroom\
Alexander, —
Overton {Wilts or Hants ?].
Redstall, Francis.
Ramsbitry.
Gwyn, George.
Salisbury.
Carter, William.
Snow, John.
"A watch, the hours in the form of diamonds, the out-
case holes with bizels for the sound of the bell."— London
Gazette, 29 March to 1 April 1680.
Wintworth, Thomas [lantern clocks, 1700-1740].
Seend.
Newton, George [1666- 1678].
Aubrey, writing ot the iron ore here, in 1 666, says: —
"I went to the smyth, George Newton,1 an ingeniose man,
who from a blacksmith tinned clock maker and fiddle maker,
and he assured me that he has melted of this oare in his
forge, which the oare of the forest of Deane &c. will not
doc."
In a collection made at Seend, in 167S, towards re-build-
ing St. Paul s, after the great fire of London, the name ol
George Newton, sen., appears as a contributor; in 16S0 to
_*V.. I
1 The mc occurs as a London clockmakcr about 1080. Sec
Britten.
Some old Wiltshire Clocks and Clockmakers. 319
redemption of slaves in Turkey, and reparation of St.
Alban's Abbey; in 1664 chapelwarden ; 1676 George
Newton, jun., was elected to that office; 16S0 paid 6s. for
mending the bells; 16S5 he was granted "an estate in his
now dwelling house, etc., and Richard his son, for their
lives and 21 years after on surrender of his present estate
and j£iO, he to re-edify his shop"'; 1709 Richard pays the
quit rent 3^.4^., the last mention of the name being in 1712
when William Paradice pays 3.?. \d. and £() " for Newton's
House". — Sectid Churchwardens' Jlook. This is the
Schombergs' house, and the "shop" is apparently the
forge which within living memory stood close by, and also
belonged to the Parish. The following occurs in the
Churchwardens' Book, St. Thomas, Sarum :-- " 1672-3 to
George Newton for new clock £10 \os. ; 1680-1 to George
Newton's salary for 6 years £\ is. 6d." The Parish Register
of Seend contains the baptisms of live children of George
and Cicill Newton 1 630-1641, two of whom died young ; the
burial of Cicill, wife of George Newton, 1670; the baptism
of Richard, son of George and Susan Newton, 1671 ; and
the burial of Susan, wife oi George Newton, 1673.
Stanton [in Wilts?].
Rogers, Robert [on the dial an engraved landscape].
Staplcjovd.
Rowden, —
Sutton [Bengcr ?].
Fry, John.
Joseph, son of John Fry, of Sutton Benger, settled in
Bristol, and was founder of the business carried on by the
well-known firm of Messrs. Fry and Son. He died in 1787.
Was this John Fry the Sutton clockmaker?
John Fry, late of Sutton Benger [son of Zephaniah and
Jane Fry, of the same place), was buried at Meiksham 1775,
aged 74, and Mary his widow in the same year, aged 71.
Quaker Records.
Swindon.
Hughes, James.
Trowbridge.
Cross, John.
Paine, William.
Slade, —
320
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Warminster.
Cocke}', Edward [circa 1750].
"Mr. J. C. Stevens recently [May 1900] sold at his rooms
in King Street, Covent Garden, an antique astronomical
clock, with brass dial, going over six weeks, the dial show-
ing the ecliptic circle, signs of the Zodiak, days and months
of the year, &c, 10* feet high, by Edward Cockey, of War-
minster, and formerly the property of Lord Carrington,
Wycombe Abbey. The clock fetched .£235. This famous
clock is, it is believed, one of three made by Cockey, who
flourished in Warminster as a bell founder and clock maker
150 years ago, in, we believe. Common Close. There is
another similar to the one mentioned in the hall at Long-
leat, and it is understood that there is one of similar make
at Hampton Court Palace. The clock at Longleat goes for
three months at a time. Cockey belongs to the same
family from which the famous Frome ironfounders1 of that
name have sprung."
Debnam, Isaac.
Markes, William [old brass raised spandrils on dial].
Moore, W.
Scott, —
Stephenson, George fin the arched top of the dial a
boy and girl playing see-saw, and swaying with the
pendulum].
Wilton.
Gouldcn, — [a fine clock, with brass dial].
Wootlon Bassctt.
Hughes, —
An interesting article in The Co>i?ioisseur for September
1904, entitled "Some Cromwellian Relics", contains an
illustration of a lock and two keys, of very elaborate work-
manship, which the Protector Oliver is said to have carried
about with him and afnxed to his bedroom door wherever
he slept. It bears the inscription : — " Richard llcwsc, of
Wootton Basset t, in Com. Wilts fecit.'' It is now in
possession of Mr. Charles Berners, of Woolverstone Park,
1 Lewis Cockey, of Frome, and Betty Bishop, of Southbrooro, were
married, by licence, at Bishop's Cannings 4 Jnly 1731,
Peculiars of (he Dean and Chapter of Sarum. 32 1
Ipswich— a descendant of Mrs. Claypole, Cromwell's
daughter, and apart from its history is an excellent specimen
of the metal-work of the period. — IV. N. c7" (J., iv, 519-20.
It is not improbable that the Wootton Bassett clock-
maker of later date may have belonged to the same family.
The name of Hughes also occurs under Swindon.
Mapson, William.
Pozzi, Anthony.
Edward Kite.
PECULIARS OF THE DEAN AND CHAPTER OF
SARUM.
{Continued from p. 260.)
Holway, Mr. James, of Good Leigh, Devon, gent., & Mrs.
Lettice Coker, of Hill Deverell, Wilts, sp. ; B'dman, Barnard
Pratt, of Good Leigh, Devon; 17 Sept. 1675.
Dismore, Allexander, of Froxfield, yeo., & Ellinor
Savadge, of Little Bedwin, Wilts, sp. ; B'dman, Robert
Savadge, of the same, yeo. ; 1 Nov. 1675.
Hawkcs, John, of Ogborne St. Andrew, Wilts, & Sybil]
Mall, of the same, wid. ; B'dman, John Hawkes, senr., yeo.,
of the same ; 17 Dec. 1675.
Maberley, Robert, of Ramsbury, tanner, & Mary Osborn,
of Wood Haies, Berks, sp. ; B'dman, Henry Brind,of High-
worth, Wilts, cordwinder ; 20 Jan. 1674-5.
Kemble, Francis, of High worth, malter, & Abigail Butler,
of Bishopston ; B'dman, Daniel Adams, of Highworth, car-
penter ; 3 July 1675.
Phillips, John, of Wanborough, Wilts, gent., & Elizabeth
Edwards, of Bishopston ; B'dmcn, Henry Phillips, of Wan-
borough, gent., & Henry Brind, of Highworth ; 6 Jan. 1675.
Hum fries, Richard, of Highworth, gent., & Mary Yeork,
of Bassets Downc, sp. ; B'dman, Henry Bl ind, of High-
worth ; 31 July 1675.
Y
322
Bcnnct, Thomas, of Stratton St. Margarets, & Barbara
Sumner, of South Marston in Highvvortli ; B'dman, William
Cooper, of Stratton, yco. ; 2 June 1675.
Markes, John, of Chardstock, Dorset, clothier, & Eliza-
beth Pym, of the same, sp. ; B'dmen, Nathaniel Knight, of
the same, clothier, Thomas Hay ward, of Sarum, goldsmith;
10 Jan. 1 675-6.
Landicke, John, of Calnc, Wilts, searchweaver, & Ann
Norman, of the same, sp. ; B'dman, Hugh Hillman, of
Denizes, yeo. ; Wit, An Hilman ; 9 May 1676.
Pinner, Thomas, of Wanting, als. Wantage, Berks,
malster, & Mary Saunders, of the same, sp. ; B'dman, John
Saunders, of the same, tanner; 26 Dec. 1675.
Hindc, John, of East Garston, Berks, hush., & Anne
Paty, of Lamborne, Berks, wid. ; B'dman, William Sey-
more, of Chipping Lamborne, Berks, inholdcr ; 29 May •
1676.
Coles, Edward, of London, cooper, & Elizabeth Brooks;
B'dman, Robert Brooks, of Wanting, Berks, gener. ; 13 May
1676.
Lovejoy, Humphry, of Sunning, Berks, yeo.; & Jane
Simmons, of the same, sp. ; B'dman, John Simmons, of the
same, yeo. ; 29 May 1676.
Wise, Edward, of Dorchester, Qxon., yeo , & Deborah
Fuller, of Sunning, co. Berks and Oxon., sp. ; B'dman,
Robert Buckeridg, of the same ; 23 June 1676.
Sly ford, Edward, of Earnborough, Hants, hush., & Anne
Odes, of Sandhurst, Berks, sp. ; B'dman, William Briston,
of Hartley Westfield, Berks, bricklayer; 4 July 1676.
Leaver, Edward, of Burfield, Berks, husb., Sarah
Browne, of Sunning, Berks, sp. ; B'dman, Thos. Langford,
of the same ; 13 July 1676.
Pigdon, Richard, of Sunning, Berks, hush., & Elizabeth
Pigeon, of the same, wid. ; B'dman, Robt. Buckcridge, of
Sunning; 26 Aug. 1676.
Scoles, Richard, of Hurst, Berks, yeo., & Anne Ellis, of
Peculiars of (he Dean and Chapter of Saturn. 323
the same, sp. ; B'dman, Nicolas Kllis, of Ledbury, co. Mere-
ford, gener. ; 16 May 1676.
Smyiher, Willm., of Wokingham, Berks, husb., & Mary
Planer, of the same, sp. ; B'dmen, Nicholas Field, junr.,
Thomas Peateman ; 24 July 1676.
Peateman, Henry, of Wokingham, Berks, husb., & Joane
Holton, of the same, sp. ; B'dmen, Nicholas and Thomas
Peateman ; 24 Apr. 1676.
Golding, John, of Bridport, Dorset, gen., & Anne Abbot,
of Beaminster, Dorset, wid. ; B'dman, Giles Hitt, of Los-
comb ; 1 7 Mar. 1676-7.
Tuflen, Richd., of Combe Bissctt, Wilts, husb., & .Anne
Ball, of the same, sp. ; 6 Oct. 1677.
Wall,1 Joseph, of Milton, Wilts, clarke, & Hannah Mist,
of Easton, Wilts, sp. ; B'dman, Wryothesly Wall, gener. ;
12 Sept. 1677.
Horton, Charles, of Harnham in the Close, Sarum,
plummcr, & Joane Silcocke, of the same, sp. ; B'dman,
William Nicholas, of East Harnham, carpenter; 13 Aug. 1677.
Hill, Phillip, of Ramsbury, & Essex Thompson, of the
■same, sp. ; B'dmen, John Hill, of Ramsbury, inholder, John
Wilde, of the same, gent. ; 27 July 1677.
Blake, Stephen, of Upton Lovells, Wilts, & Elizabeth
Parker, of Calne, wid ; B'dmen, John Moore, of Bromham,
clothworkcr, William Antrum, of Sarum, cloth worker ;
17 July 1677.
Perrott, Richard, of Mere, Wilts, blacksmith, & Jane
Steevens, of the same j B'dman, Samuel Rashly, of Sarum,
iremonger ; 24 Jan. 1677-S.
Betterton, Edmund, of Fairford, co. Glouc., baker, »S:
Sarah Brookman, of High worth; B'dman, Richard Stephens,
of High worth, wollcn draper; 26 Feb. 1676-7.
Welles, Thos., the younger, of Blunsdon in High worth,
1 These two were brothers, both entered at New Inn Hall; the latter
was bur. in Merton College Chapel.— [Eo.]
Y 2
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
s. of Thos. Welles, junr., & Anne Morrcl, of Longcut in
Slid ven ham, Berks; 27 June 1677.
Pinnocke, John, of Blunsdon in Highworth, wheeler, &
Sarah Bridges, of the same ; B'dman, Peter Waters, of the
same, yeo. ; 15 Jan. 1676-7.
Bayly, Edward, of Highworth, yeo., & Elizabeth Yorke,
of Hannington ; B'dman, John Yorke, of the same,
gardner ; 1 Feb. 1677-8.
Winckles, Thomas, of Wokingham, Berks, shoemaker, &
Mary Shcppard, of St. Mary's, Reading, sp. ; B'dman,
Daniel Elliott, of Reading ; 2S Jan. 1677.
Soundy, Joseph, of Sunning, Berks and Oxon., & Anne
Breach, of the same ; B'dman, William Forster, of the same;
18 July 1677.
Lawther, Nevill, of St. Martin's, Westminster, & Ellenor
Taylor, of Sunning, Berks and Oxon. ; B'dman, Peter
Breach, of Sunning ; 17 Sept. 1677.
Beckingham, Seymore, of Shefford Woodlands, Berks,
yeo., & Frances Cox, of the same, wid. ; B'dman, John
Nicholls, of West Hendred, Berks, yeo. ; 14 Oct. 1677.
Rowland, Jasper, of Charlton, Berks, yeo., & Joane
Kimber, of Wantage, sp. ; B'dman, Rich. Kimber, of
Wantage, weaver; 5 Jan. 1677-S. Rowland seals: Three
suns in pale between two bars zuavy, helmet, no crest.
James, Phillip, of Lam borne, Berks, yeo., & Damans
Holloway, of the same, sp. ; B'dman, Thomas James, ol the
same, yeo. ; 5 Jan. 1677-8.
Strong, Thos., of Wantage, Berks, yeo., & Anne Buckle,
of the same ; B'dman, Simon Buckle, of the same, yeo. ;
22 Sept. 1677.
Jones, William, of Wantinge, Berks, yen., & Sarah Keate,
of the same, sp. ; B'dman, Robert Keate, of the same,
maulster; 10 Aug. 1677.
Hibbott, Geffery, of Up Lamborne, Berks, yeo., & Frances
Cox, of Shcflbrd, Berks; B'dman, Henry Pcrrey, of
Wantinge, yeo. ; 6 July 1677.
Peculiars of the Dean and Chapter of Sarum. 325
Gould, John, of Here Regis, Dorset, baker, & Alice
Whoper, of the same ; B'dmen, John Jenkins, of Blandford
Forum, Edward Moores, of Bere Regis ; 20 Dec. 1677.
Pottle, John, of Blandford Forum, carpenter, & Elizabeth
Martin, of Bere Regis, Dorset, sp. ; B'dmen, John Coombcs,
of the same, Lucia Martin, of Kingston, Dorset.
Vicars, Willm., of Kimpton, Somerset, & Elizabeth Ares;
B'dman, John Chafin, of Sherborne, Dorset ; 20 July 1677.
Armstrong, Thos., & Mary Tayler; B'dman, Robert
Tayler, of Sherborne, Dorset; 16 Dec. 1677.
Sewarde, Ambrose, junr., of Yeavil, Somerset, & Eliza-
beth Gary, of the same ; B'dman, John Knight, of the same ;
2 Jan. 1677-8.
Gibbs, John, of Pilsdon, Dorset, & Alice Stoodley ;
B'dman, Phillip Prosser, of Broadwinsor ; 6 Sept. 1677.
Gaswel, Obadiah, of Sherborne, Dorset, & Mary Crocker;
B'dman, Michael Crocker, of Sherborne ; 12 Feb. 1677-8.
Rutter, Edmund, of Sherborne, Dorset, & Elizabeth
Edwards; B'dman, John Daggle, of North Wotton, Dorset;
11 July 1677.
Miller, William, of Holnest, Dorset, & Anne Dober, of the
same; B'dman, John Daggle, of North Wotton; 2S Feb.
1677-8.
Pate, William, of Fordington, Dorset, & Anne Pope, of
Sherborne; Wit., Samuel Thornton, William Simmonds,
Walter Manns.
Lockicr, Thomas, of Ovcrcompton, Dorset, gent., & Joane
Davys, of Adber-in- Trent, co. Somerset, --p. ; B'dman, John
Cordelyon, of South Pctherton, co. Sornt., yeo.; 19 Sept. 1674.
Horsenailc, William, of London, & Elizabeth Rockall, of
Ruscombc, Berks, sp. ; B'dman, Edward Rockall, of the
same ; 5 Apr. 1675.
Hall, Richard, of Hurst, co. Berks, husb., & Jane Love-
grove, of Monsell, co. Oxon.,sp. ; B'dman, Robt. Buckeridge,
of Sunning, Berks; 9 Nov. 107.}
Breach, Willm., of Sunning, Berks and O.xon., yeo., &
326 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Alice Allen, of the same, sp. ; B'dnian, John Smith, of the
same ; 2 July 1674.
Bryan, James, of Bolton, Kent, Esq., & Dame Theodosia
Ive}r, of Hurst, co. Berks, wid. ; B'dman, Nicholas Cody, of
Bolton ; 5 Apr. 1674.
Simmons, Richard, of London, Middlesex, victualler, &
Anne Bcnnct, of Hurst, Berks, sp. ; B'dnian, Robt.
Buckeridg, of Sunning ; 29 Sept. 1674.
Breach, John, of Sunning, Berks and Oxon., yeo.,& Alice
Johnson, of the same, wid. ; B'dman, Robt. Buckeridg, of
the same ; 22 Apr. 1674.
Edmund R. Nevill.
{To be continued.)
(Durnrs.
Thomas South of Bossington Hall, Hants. - Informa-
tion sought concerning his family. He sold lands at Ash-
more, co. Wilts, in 1 So 1 ; his crest and coat of arms closely
resemble South's of Swallowed iffc. lie was interested in
arboriculture, and wrote, I believe, on that subject.
YORKS.
William Haviland.— Who were his parents ? lie went
to America about 1650, and settled in Newport. Rhode Island;
a Freeman there 17 May 1653, and a Commissioner to the
General Court at Portsmouth, 24 May 1656. Was he son of
James Haviland. Mayor of Salisbury, 1602-3, horn there, and
baptised at St. Thomas', 7 Sept. 1606, or if he was not the
son of this William was he son of any of the following ? : —
James, b. 12 Feb. 1595. Matthew, b. 4 Sept. i6co.
John, b. 4 Apr. 1 59S. Giles, b. c6 Feb. 1603.
E. Haviland Hillman.
Replies.
3*7
Lenten Veils (p. 273). — Among ornaments of the
Cathedral Church of Old Sarum, found in the treasury,
30 March 1214, and certified by Abraham de Winton in 1222,
while the new Cathedral Church at Salisbury was in progress
of building, among a larger number of pallia and pannt\ three
silken veils (vela de serico) were mentioned. The first was
the Lenten Veil {quadragesimalc\ the others are described
as "over the (Easter) sepulchre", and "over the fonts",
respectively. Salisbury Ceremonies and Processions (Svo.,
Camb., 1901), p. 173. There were also two curtains to cover
the crosses in Lent {Ib.} p. 176). The ceremonial customs as
to the use of the veil and coverings arc detailed in the
Consuetudinary and the Customary, which are printed in
parallel columns in W. II. Frere's Use of Sarum, i (Camb.,
1898), pp. 138-141 ; and in the Ordinate, //;., ii, 58, 65 (1901).
It is interesting to trace the introduction of the ceremony of
elevation as evidenced by the variation between the earlier
and later texts as given by Mr. Frere. A small winch or
windlass of iron, which is believed to have been used for the
veil, may be still seen attached to one of the northern pillars
of the Presbytery in Salisbury Cathedral Church. Dom. H.
Philibcrt Feasey tells us that a similar pulley is preserved at
Arundel, Anc. Engl. Holy Week Ceremonial (ed. 1897), 16.
Although the printed Sarum Missal (e.g.t p. 284; says nothing
of the Lenten Veil, the rubric of the Breviary (i, p. decci)
implies that the images were covered as a matter of cour C ;
and Clement M ay de stone, in 1440, say.> that both customs
were of general obligation in his time (Tracts of C Maydestonex
pp. 15, 48). In Will-, we arc not, so far as I am aware, 50
well off as some other counties are for full inventories of tin.
goods of parish churches, though there is a record of chalices
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
and bells left to the use of the parish churches in 1553. The
reference, I think, is "R.O. Augm. Office Miscell. Hooks,
vol. 514". Mr. J. E. Nightingale made use of this in his
account of Wilts Cliurch Plate (Salisbury, 189 1) ; and Mr. W.
C. Lukis for Church Bells (Parker, 1857 ; and in Wilts Arch.
Mag., 18 53-4, nos. 1-4). The document is printed in Wilts
Arch. Mag. (1S70), xii, 362-370. There arc inventories,
indeed, of Chantry Furniture, 15 June 1548, in the Chafyn-
Grovc Papers, edited by Canon J. E. Jackson in 1S85, Wilts
Arch. Mag., xxii, 318-29; but those, naturally, do not con-
cern the high altars of churches However, Corpus Christi
Brotherhood of Trowbridge had "a cloihe of sylkc to hang
before the aultar" (p. 326). The note about the church goods
of "S. Maris in the Devizes", 15 Jan. 1553-4 (Nightingale,
u.s.f 105 ;?.), does not concern itself with textiles. Mr.
Symonds has recently told us in the Wilts Arch. Mag., xxxvi,
37, in Winterslow Church Reckonings (1542-61), that a pro-
cession[er? for the Litany in English | and a booke for the
Communion [in English, to use along with the Latin missal]
were bought in 1548. In the following year 335. .\d. was
paid (a monstrous tax, surely !) for " Redcmyng of the chalyce",
and 2od. "for pullyng dovvne of the allters and Ryddyng of
the churche". And then, in 1550, "Imprimis, for the payntyng
of a clothe to hang a crosc (i.e., across) the church, 3s. .\d."
It was not until 1552 that the S.s. "for the boke of Commyn
praer" was charged. In 1569 the wardens were called before
Q. Elizabeth's vys^ytors, and three lots of "lynen gcre" were
sold (p. 39). Here, at SS. Peter and Paul, Marlborough, our
regular accounts begin in 1555, after copies of a few earlier
documents of 1546 and 1553, though our Parish Registers do
not open till 1611. Our Inventories are dated June 154S (for
the Jesus Service, at a side-altar), and for the high altar
29 November 1555, with additions, November 1 550 ; December
1557 (Philip and Mai)-), with alterations after the accession
of Elizabeth ; and 1570. I cannot say for c ertain that wc had
a Lenten Veil. 1 find "In primis a fyne shete" in 1555.
Replies. 329
"An arys covcrlyd" 1557, which in 1570 appears as "Item,
one carpet of arys, that covereth the communyon table".
This would be of Arras tapestry. Sonic inventories of church
goods in the thirteenth century (early and late), belonging to
churches and chapels within the jurisdiction of the Dean and
Chapter of Salisbury, arc preserved in the so-called Osmund
Register (Rolls Scries ed. ; i, 276-314); and the Liber
Evidentiarum (Sarum Charters, R.S., pp. 369-70). Hut only
a few of those places arc within our county limits. About
1300 it was noted that there was a velum quadragesimale at
Hurstc, but none cither at Ruscombe or Sandhurst. Perhaps
it is a fair inference that at Knook and Heytesbury (p. 370)
the veil was duly produced for view of the visitor, as other
"defects" are reported there (but not this) Bishop Richard
Poore had directed that inventories of church goods should be
entered in the missal of each church,1 and this was done in one,
at least, of the prebendal churches (Sunning).- We have in
the case of Heytesbury the full list of 1220, including a con-
siderable number of pallia, lintheamina, and panni, and 1 cortina
(O.R., i, 295). At Knook (i, 296) there were "hi mantilia
nova ad altaria, et x alia". The inventory for Merc, in 1220
(i, 291), is more precise, and there we find, "ii panni serici
ante altare, ct ii alii ad moduni thoralis, ct i lineus floribus
protractus, et i vetus cortina, et i pannus quadragcsimalis vetus
et attritus, ct iii pepla ad Mariolam coopericr.dam linca".
Among rather later acquisitions were "iiii mantilia, quorum i
est paratum" [ornamented with "apparels"], "Item iii panni
linci incisi et picti ante altare, dc pcrquisitionc J. capellani.
Item i lintheum ad cooperiendum crucem, tempore quad-
1 Sarum Charter*, p. 150, sec. 1', 1.
2 Ibid, p. 370. The Lenten Veil was not definitely required to be pro-
vided by the terms of Bishop Poore'a Constitution [cir. 1223), .<-ce. 62,
149. But a few generations later (he Constitution of Archbishop Robert
Winchesley.at the Council of Merton, A.D. 1305 (' i't parcchiani"), declared
that it was the duty «>f the parish to provide a return quadragesimale.
Lyndwood, Provinciate, ii, 252 ; iii, Thenceforward authority might be
brought to bear uputi churchwardens who should oeglect to find one.
330
ragcsimali" (if 291-2). At Hill Devcrcl (i, 312) were, "ii
mantilia benedicta et iii non benedicta: ct i magnus pannus
lineus dependens in muro retro altarc ; ct alius Uncus
dependens ultra altarc B. Jacobi, ct ii manutergia. Item
pannus i depictus dependens ante altarc, ct alius lincus parui
prccii, ct tcrcius ad modum thoralis dependens ante altarc B.
Jacobi". At Horningsham, in 1224, were, "mantilia vi,
quatuor benedicta ct duo non benedicta ; ct i manutcrgium ;
ct i pannus ante altarc lineus, floribus incisis. Et alius
similiter lineus minoris prccii. Non est ibi superpelliceum
ncc rochettum" (i, 314). In the Calne Churchwardens'
Accounts, which begin as early as 1527, the inventory of
1 February 1551 (5 Ed. VI) contains: "It"1 j lente clothe called
ye vayle". This item was among those which were sub-
sequently erased; History of Calnc, A. E. W. Marsh (1903),
p. 371. An Inventory of the time of King Edward IV is
preserved in "Jornall Boke" of St. Edmund's, Salisbury,
Churchwardens' Accounts of Si. Edmund and Si Thomas,
Salisbury, edd. H. J. F. Swaync and Amy Straton, 1896,
pp. 3-7. It appears that in 1472 there were— "j veyle to be
drawen in lenton tymc to fore the hye autcr. Item j cloth to
honge to fore the hye rode" [rood], p. 7. In 1538-9 the
wardens paid 4c/. "for a corde to drawe vp the clothe by fore
the rode" (p. 84). The "roode cloth of canvas" was sold to
Rob. Batchat (10 Eliz.), in 1567-8, for 3s. .\d., and Master Ay re,
the Mayor, "iij coortyns of sylke and ij lytell clothys that
holdcth the nelinge box [containing oil For extreme unction,
etc.], and one stole" for 25., pp. 1 10, 111. The churchwardens
of St. Thomas', Salisbury, in 1546-7 (38 lien. YI1I and
1 Edw. VI), brought to account disbursements for "vij yardes
of Oscon' brigges1 for to make Seynt Thomas a lenton clothe,
at \ii)d. the yardc, summa 2s. $d. ; Philipp Reed for making
of the same clothe; Curteyn Ryngcs, threddc, and settyng ol
the same cloth" (//;., p. 274). But in the two following years
1 I do not understand this ; perhaps it is meant for "Satin uf Bruges
Replies.
the images were defaced. In the paper of Inventories of
Church Goods and Chantries of Wills, which includes the too
brief summary certificates of church goods (chalices and hells)
of 1553, Mackenzie E. C. Walcott has edited (Wilts Arch.
Mag., xii, 356, foil.) the certificates for Amcsbury Nunnery
(31 December 1539) and Malmesbury Abbey (15 December
1539), but the "bookes of particular sales" of "juellcs" and
ornaments arc not forthcoming. The Inventories of three
friaries are, however, given. They show that the Whitefriars
or Carmelites of Marlborough, at the Priory, before the
dissolution, had "a hangyng of sylkc for ye Scpulcre (valued
at), 2S. . . . ; two hangyngs for ye autcr with ye fruntlet, 1 2d. ;
an olde chesabull, Sd. ; a vavle, 25." The Black Friars or
Dominicans at Salisbury had "a frame for the Sepulchre",
fifteen "altar clotheis to hange before altars ; a gret meny of
clothcis for lent, a grit clothe to hange before ye rode"
(xii, 359-361). The Grey Friars, Minorites, or Franciscan
Friars had "an olid blacke clothe", but no veil nor anything
specifically designed "for Lent", except " iiij sengeill vestmentes
for Lent, ye one yelawe" (xii, 362).
[The article in the Church Timesf we believe, confined
itself to altar veils ; it is still the universal custom to veil all
the images during Passion-tide. — Ed.]
Chr. Wordsworth.
An Ancient Wiltshire Custom (p. 275).— The ancient
custom, about which "Scriba" asks for information, has been
described by John Aubrey in his Wiltshire Collections, p. 184,
and by Mr. Carrington, under the name "Word Ale"? by the
late Mr. Parsons, of Hunts Mill, Wootton Bassett;3 by the
late Mr. Coleman,3 and by Mr. Talbot 13aincs, late agent to
Lady Mcux.
1 Wilts Arch. .1%., ii, p. 399,
2 Sibindon Advertiser, May B, issc.
:l Swindon Advertiser, Nov. 30, 1900.
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Mr. Baines is the only one of these writers who has taken
part at the ceremony, and, as such, his account, though inac-
curate in regard to some historical facts, is extremely interest-
ing. He says that "no actual written record of this Court
appears to have been kept before the year 1S10, since which
time it has been kept regularly, signed by the steward and
those tenants of the Manor who attended. The steward is
the person who is for the time being the owner of the lands
comprising the Manor of Midgehall". In this case Lady Mcux
deputed her agent to attend the Court in her place.
According to Mr. Parsons, "the late Sir Henry Meux'
records relating to the ' Word Ale'' do not go farther back than
1752" (which is fifty years earlier than the date given by Mr.
Baines). "One Adam Tuck was then steward (agent) of
the Wootton Bassett estate, and town clerk at Wootton
Bassett. He left in disgrace, about 1752, taking with him the
Wootton Bassett Charter, which has since been recovered at
Denbigh amongst the papers of his descendants, and most
likely the iWord Ale' documents were taken away at the same
time as the Charter."
Till the time when the record of the Court was kept in
writing the only evidence of the holding of the Court seems to
have been the White Rod, in which one notch was cut annually.
The Hazel Rod, when in Mr. Baines' keeping, had something
over two hundred notches cut in it, and "it is said that more
than one rod, previous to this one, has been lost. The rod in
use is in the custody of the tenant at whose house the next
Court is to be held, and it is retained by him during his year
of office. With respect to the Court it-elf, a solemn oath has
to be taken by the steward on his appointment, and by the
tenants when they are admitted as members of the Court,
which oath precludes anyone who has taken it from divulging
the secrets and ritual that arc observed, which is of a sacred
character".
At this point I may stop to remark, as Mr. Carrington
docs, that at the time of the Reformation, and also when the
Replies.
333
Puritans were in power, secrecy was of supreme importance
when singing the chorus as given by Aubrey: "You arc to
pray for the Abbot of Stanley and all the Monks of the
Cistercian order by whom we are all tithe free, tithe free";
and, as old customs die hard, secrecy is still observed, and in
this twentieth century it is still supposed by the tenants
attending the Court that the tithe free condition of their land
depends on the observance of the custom.
Mr. Haines continues: "The dinner or feast that is held
afterwards was in ancient times somewhat primitive, and
would now be thought unpalatable diet. There is a toast to
be drunk in a mixture of cheese, beer, and onions, with various
spices".
Mr. Parsons, however, speaks of a "loaf of white bread
into which a small White Wand three feet long must be stuck
in a perpendicular position, also a thin cheese, and a small
barrel of beer having to be provided by the person at whose
house the Court is held"; and he says that "when all have
arrived they proceed to an upper chamber, where a Hiblc is
placed on a table, and, after the minutes of the previous meet-
ing have been read, fresh holders must be sworn according to
the wording of the oath . . minutes of the Court will then be
made and signed . . all will kneel down and repeat the Lord's
Prayer, and all will go below and partake of the cheese, bread,
and ale. The White Wand will then be handed to the person
whose turn it is to hold the next Court. The Requirement is
read in detail every time upstairs".
This shows that great changes have taken place since the
time when Aubrey wrote {circa [670). lie also alludes to
changes before his time, by saying "formerly the Custome of
Wordc Ale was celebrated with great solemnitic, many prayers
being made for the Abbot of Stanley and the Monks of the
Cistercian order, now forgotten ; all that they retain is 'You
are to pray for the Abbot of Stanley and all the Monks of the
Cistercian order by whom we are all tithe free, tithe free, &c,
&c.,M
334 Wiltshire Notes mul Queries.
"These words are sung by a chorus while one chinks a
Garouse, holding a White Wand in his hand, and so all
round." This old chorus seems now to have given place to
the repetition of the Lord's Prayer.
Midgehall tithing, which in the time of Charles II included
Midgehall Court,1 Costow farm, the two Studleys, and othcr
farms, has been tithe free since 1 186-9, when Henry II gave
the land to the Cistercian Abbey of Stanley.- All Cistercian
land having been exempted from payment of tithe by Pope
Innocent II, in 1139, the tithing of Midgehall contributed
nothing to the maintenance of the Rectors of Lydiard Tregoze
(in which parish it is situated), with the result that the Rectors,
deprived of their means of livelihood, petitioned the rich Abbots
for redress, and that a composition or arrangement was made
between William, then Abbot of Stanley, and John de Winter-
berg, Rector of Lydiard Tregoxe, in 122S A.D., of which the
following is a translation from the Latin copy of the original
exhibited in Court in a trial between the Earl of Hertford v.
St. John, 4 May 15S7 :—
Composition between the Abbot of Stanley and the Rector
of Lydiard, 122S a.d.
To all, William Ijyrd Abbot of Stanley and the Convent there
and John, Parson of Lydiard Etvyas, Greeting.
Whereas it is well known to all that the order of Cistercians has
been for a long time past by privilege from the Roman Pontiffs exempted
from payment of Tythe, and we being of that order have enjoyed that
exemption and immunity in our Grange of MygcJiallwith its appurten-
ances and in all our lands and possessions within the limits of the said
parish of Lydiard Ewyas from the time of the Foundation of our 1 louse :
to wit that no payment whatever of any kind under the name of tythe
great and small hath ever been made" by us to the said church or any
Rector thereof or even to the said John. In order that all occasion ol
1 An Asscssi/'ent of the Inhabitants of Lyddyard Tregote and Midgehall
tythingc, giving the names of the farms belonging to the tithing, was printed
in 1G77, of winch I have a copy.
3 See Wilts Arch. May., xv, 'J ID, where Midgehall" Ifl spelt
•* MigehaT".
Replies. 335
complaint may in future be put an end to between our House and the
said Church of Lydiard Ewyas and the Rectory thereof respecting any
kind of Tythes, We of our common consent and will, haviug a holy
respect unto charity, do assigji eight shillings to be paid every year, at
Michaelmas, unto the said John ami his successors in the Church of
Lydiard Ewyas, by some one of us for ever. But whereas 1 John ithe
Rector) nor the said Church, nor any of my predecessors have ever
received anything whatever under the name of tythe out of the aforesaid
Grange and its appurtenances nor out of the lauds and possessions of
the said Monks, being however sensible that the condition of the said
Church hath been amended by their bounty I have freely accepted their
favour, and give my assent that the said Abbot and Convent shall be
exempt from payment of all Tythes which can possibly be demanded of
them either of parochial right or in any other way by the said Church or
by myself or any other Rector under any pretence whatsoever.
For the better security of this composition both, I, John, and the
said Abbot and Convent, have hereunto affixed our seals and at our
request the Reverend the Archdeacon of Wilts as the see of
Sarum being vacant has affixed his Seal.
Witnesses Master Luke,1 Canon of Sarum, William [ ], Robert
Bacon, and others.
[This composition is the translation of a Deed presented
by R. Mullings, Esq., of Stratton Court, Cirencester, to the
Devizes Museum.]
Another and much later composition (of which I have not
seen a copy) between the Abbot of Stanley and the Yicar of
Wootton Bassett, dated 1570 (also presented to the Museum
by Mr. Mullings), bears on the same subject. This later
Deed belongs to the period of the Dissolution of the Monas-
teries, when these lands had passed out of the control of the
Abbot into lay hands, when the tenure by which, these lands
were tithe free would be likely to be called in question, and
when secrecy was of the utmost importance, "giving rise to
curious stories as to the efforts made to prevent holding this
court, traps being laid to prevent the steward from attending
it on the day stipulated by the old Abbot, which day was the
1st Sunday after Michaelmas day''.
1 Luke de Winton, the King'* Treasurer.- f Ed.]
33^
Wiltshire Notes and (Jucries.
Several Acts passed about this time (to which Mr. Coleman
has called attention) throw light on the difficulties which had
to be legislated for at this time. Statute 31 Henry VIII,
cap. 13, vested the greater monasteries in the king; sec. 21
states that "the King and all persons who should possess
lands belonging to these greater Monasteries should hold
them discharged from tithe in as ample a manner as the
Abbots, etc., had held them at the time of the dissolution" ;
also "that the lands of these institutions were granted by the
Crown to various purchasers, who thus became impropriators
of the tithes, and had the same rights with regard thereto as
if the}' were exempted persons".1
Land, therefore, which had been tithe free continued to
be so, and is so to this day. One of the fields in Old Costow
still bears the name "Tithe free", testifying to the fact that it
was originally in the tithing of Midgehall, which it continued
to be down to the lime of Charles II, as shown by the Assess-
ment of Inhabitants of the tithing in 1677, mentioned above.
It is now in Wroughton parish, but when the change was
effected is not known.
The notched rod mentioned by Mr. Haines is of historical
interest to all Wiltshire people, and it is to be hoped that
Lady Meux (in whose possession it now is) may some day
have the kindness to send it to be kept along with the Deeds
relating to the " Wont Ale" custom, in the Devizes Museum.
"Scriba", too, may be able to tell the Society where the
rod with one hundred and seventy notches, which lie -aw, is
to be found, and procure it, too, for the Museum.
The derivation of the names %iMidgehalln and xiWovd
Ale" require careful research, to which attention is invited.
T. Story Mask ely ne.
1 Statute 32 Henry VI II, 1 Edward VI.
Wtitsinre jBtotrs antj Queries,
DECEMBER, 1909.
NOTES ON THE HYDES OF Y/ILTS AND CHESHIRE.
N these notes, it is proposed to show the Pedigree of
the family of Hyde, dealing principally with that
branch to which Edward Earl of Clarendon belongs.
The chief interest in this family centres around him,
not onl}- on account of his great position and attain-
ments, but also on account of the marriage of his daughter
Anne to James Duke of York, afterwards James II, whereby
he became the grandfather of two reigning monarchs, Mary
of Orange and Anne. There is a tendency to refer to all the
Hydes somewhat loosely, as related to the Earl of Clarendon
and related to Anne Hyde, Duchess of York; sometimes the
latter's cousins and even uncles are referred to as her brothers.
The use of the same Christian names by many of the branches
of this family, a particular in which they were not the
exception at the time, rather adds to the confusion.
So far as possible, all the authorities quoted in these note-,
are given with references, and it is hoped that the queries
raised by these notes, e.g., the many unidentified Hydes and
missing dates of birth, marriage, and burial, may be
answered.
Like the Dyers, Earwells, and Kclways, the Hydes
derived their wealth from being able, through their position
as lawyers, to deal advantageously with the lands, parsonages,
and tithes of the then recently dissolved Religious Houses.
338
The Lord Chancellor, in his Life, states that
"He was born at Dinton in the County of Wilts six miles from
Salisbury in the house of his father who was Henry Hyde, the third
son of Laurence Hyde of West Hatch Esquire, which Laurence was
the younger son of Robert Hyde of Norbnry in the County of Cheshire
Esquire".
The first member of the family of interest, therefore, to
Wiltshire readers is
"Laurence, who was placed as a Clerk in one of the Auditors'
Offices of the Exchequer, where he gained great experience and was
employed in the affairs and business of Sir John Thynne who, under
the protection and service of the Duke of Somerset, had in a short time
raised a very great estate and was the first of that name that was known,
and left the house of Longleat to his heir with other lands to a great
value. Laurence Hyde continued not above a year (or very little more)
in thai relation and never gained anything by it but shortly after
married Anne relict of Matthew Colt hurst Esquire of Claverton near
Bath in the County of Somerset, by whom he had a fair fortune"
[Clarendon Life].
No mention is made, by the Lord Chancellor, of Laurence
Hyde's first marriage.
Amongst the Pyt House Papers is an Extract from the
Books of the Augmentation Office, dated 20th day July,
3 Edward VI, certified to be extracted by "L. Hyde, deputy of
John Thynne, Knight, Supervisor".
There is a discrepancy between the Pedigree of Hyde in
Ormerod's Cheshire, where Laurence is said to be a son of
Robert Hyde by his second wife, a daughter of Robert
Skargill, of County York, Esquire, or daughter of Robert
Scaregill, Citizen and Skinner of London, and the Pedigree
in the Visitation of Wilts, which states that he was a son of
Robert, by his third wife Katherine, daughter of [ ]
Boydell of Pomcroft, county Chester. The latter account
seems now to be generally accepted as correct.
Laurence Hyde married, first, Alary, daughter of William
Hartgill of Kilmington, Somerset ( Hutch in.-' /)<>>srt, cd. iii,
vol. iii, p. 135), and, secondly, Anne, daughter of Nicholas
Sibell of Faringham, Kent, and widow of Matthew Colthurst
of Claverton, near Bath. lie lived for some time at Haimc-
339
feme in the Parish of Gussage St. Michael, which lie held
(31 Elizabeth) of the Queen as of her Duchy of Lancaster
by the 40th part of a fee value £7. Some years before, in
5 Edward VI, a messuage, 2S2 acres, and common for 500
sheep, was held in chief by Thomas Ludwcll, with licence
to alienate to Laurence Hide and his heirs, value ^3 2s. yl.
"This family does not seem to have resided here long"
(Hutchins' Dorset, ed. iii, vol. iii, p. 134). Upon the
execution and attainder of Sir Thomas Arundell, in 1552,
Wardour escheated to the Crown and was granted to
William first Earl of Pembroke. Lnurence Hyde obtained a
lease from William Earl of Pembroke, dated 2 July, 5 Edward VI,
of Wardour Castle and Park, etc., for 21 years at a rental
of ^30 6s. SV/., one-third being reserved for Margaret, widow
of Sir T. Arundell (Survey of Lands of William Ear! of
Pembroke, p. 112), and evident^ lived at Wardour, because
as living at "Wardour, Generosus" he is described in a
Statute Merchant Bond to which he was a party, dated
21 December, 5 Elizabeth; and also as "of Warder,
Generosus" (not as transcribed by Canon Jackson, "Gent.")
he is described in the Wilts Institutions (Phillipps) on pre-
senting, in 1564 to Stratford Tony. Mis letter to Sir John
Thynne, his former patron, dated from Warder Castell,
20 January 156S {IVills Arch. Mag., vol. xviii, p. 19), discloses
the fact, that his lease of Wardour had then only six years to
run and, being anxious to obtain some freeholds of his own, he
endeavoured to exchange the Rectory of Kevcll with Sir John
Thynne for the fee simple of lands at Clopton, Somerset, of
which he had a lease for the lives of himself and his sons.
Besides the Visitation of Cheshire, the only reference to his
first wife, by whom he is said to have had a son, John,1 seems
1 In Dugdale's Orijincs, p. 228, the Arms of a John Huyde are
illustrated as haying been in the second window towards the North in the
Middle Temple Hall, Azure, a elierron between three lozenges or, a label of
three points gules. Can he be identified as the son of Laurence by his first
wife, Mary Hartgill?
34o
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
to be a letter amongst the Longleat Papers, published in the
Wilts Arch. Mag., vol. viii, p. 329, addressed by him to Sir
John Thynne, written "on behalf of my sister Hartgill", who
has been assumed to be the widow of the Hartgill murdered
b}" Lord Stourton and so his sister-in-law.
By 27 Elizabeth, he had become "of Westhatch, Armiger",
for so he is described in a Statute Merchant Bond given to
him by "John Younge of Little Dornforde" ; this transaction
possibly related to the marriage of his daughter Joanna with
Edward Younge, son of John Younge, which took place on the
29th June 1584, at Tisbury. There is a discrepancy, for the
Register gives his christian name as Edmund and the brass at
"Dorneford" as Edward.
Laurence Hyde attained a position of considerable im-
portance and influence ; he seems to have taken part in all local
and public business {Wills Arch. Mag., vol. xxix, pp. 194, 247).
No doubt, under his influence, his relatives came into Wilts
from Cheshire, and it may be convenient to mention them
here. Hamonet, William, Edward, and Thomas, D.D., were
the second, third, fourth, and fifth -ons, respectively, of Robert
Hyde, of Norbury and Hyde, Cheshire, by his second marriage
with Margaret, daughter of John Dukenfield, arid grandsons
of Laurence Hyde's eldest half-brother, the issue of his own
father's first marriage with Margaret Holond, of Denton,
Lancashire. The discrepancy in age is accounted for when it
is remembered, that Laurence was the sole issue of Robert's
third marriage.
A Hamonet Hyde was presented to the living of Stratford
Ton}', by Laurence Hyde, in 1560, and died before 1564, when
Laurence presented another Laurence Hyde, who has not been
identified — unless he was 1 Iamonet's uncle of that name, which
seems, however, improbable.
There is a Hamonet Hyde mentioned in Somerset and
Dorset A'. & O., vol. iv., p. 310, as an L'sher of Sherborne
School from 1570-1572.
Notes on the Hydes of Wilts and Cheshire. 341
"1570. Mamonct Hyde, B.A., Rector of Bishop's Caundle
1589, left Michaelmas 1572." Possibly the Hamonet Hyde
mentioned as having been presented to Stratford Tony, in
1560, was of an earlier generation, and the Usher of Sherborne
School was the Hamonet Hyde, elder brother of Edward and
Thomas. All this is very problematical and the evidence
scanty.
William Hide is referred to by Anne, widow of Laurence
Hyde, in her will, dated 2S November 1604, as living at
Salisbury.
Edward Hyde seems to be the Edward Hyde, who was
presented by the Bishop of Salisbury to the Vicarage of
Boscombe, in 1614, on the resignation of Thomas Hyde, who
was then presented to Stratford Tony by Robert Hyde of
West Hatch.
In 34 Elizabeth, there was a member of the Corporation
of Salisbury named Edward Hyde, but nothing in the Muni-
cipal Records occurs to identify him as one of the family.
Thomas Hyde, D.D., was Prebendary of Ilfracombe in
Salisbury Cathedral, 1583; Canon Residentiary Chancellor,
158S ; Vicar of Boscombe ; Vicar of St; atford Tony, 1614; died
1 618. He also is referred to by Anne, widow of Laurence
Hyde, in her will, as Dr. Hyde, of Sarum. He seems to have
been married twice, if the following entries in the Salisbury
Cathedral Register relate to him and his family: —
1601, July 27. Mary, wife of Thomas Hide, Canon Residentiary, buried.
1602, Nov. 5. Elizabeth, d. of Thomas Hide, Canon, christened.
1604, Nov. 17. Margaret, d. of Thomas Hide, D.D., christened.
1605, May 15. Katherine, d. of Thomas Hide, D.I) , christened.
1609, Apr. 1. Jane, d. of Thomas Hide, D.D., christened.
1610, Mar. 26. Thomas, s. of Thomas Hide, D.D., christened.
161 1, Sep. 27. Barbara, d. of Thomas Hide, D.D., christened.
1614, Apr. 6. Luce, d. of Thomas Hide, christened.
1617, May 27. Robert, s. of Thomas Hide, D.D., christened.
His daughter Barbara is probably the Barbara Hyde who
married, 29 May 1632, Thomas Chafin, D.D., Vicar of Merc,
as his first wife, at Tisbury, where, and also in the Mere
342
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Registers, the marriage is recorded. Dr. Chafin's sufferings
and death at the hands of Cromwell's soldiers are mentioned
in Walker's Sufferings of the^Clergy. '**
Their son Thomas was baptized at Tisbury, on the 25th
June 1633, and their daughter Barbara, at .Mere, in 1636.
Barbara Chafin was buried at Mere, in 1636, and her husband-
soon afterwards married again. ^
Chancellor Hyde is mentioned in the Tisbury Registers
as a person of importance in the record of the marriages of
three of Laurence Hyde's daughters — "Mr. Thomas Iluyde
now Chancellor of the Cathedral Church of Sarum celebrating
the marriage". He died in December 16 iS, and was buried
in Salisbury Cathedral.
Laurence Hyde was buried on the 15th June 1590, at Tis-
bury, where there is a magnificent brass, engraved in'Hoare's
Modern Wills and also in Kite's Wiltshire Brasses, with his
Arms and those of his wife. Me left four sons and four
daughters, Robert, Laurence, Henry, Nicholas, Avys, Susan,
Elizabeth, and Johanna. Mis sons Ilamonct and Edward died
in infancy; Robert and Laurence married sisters, Anne and
Barbara, daughters of John Baptiste Castilian, of Benham, in
the county of Berks, Esquire; Nicholas married Mary, daughter
of Sir Arthur Swain e, of Sarson, Hants; Avys married Thomas
Baynard ; Susan, Sir George Ivie ; Elizabeth, Sir John Saint
Lowe; and Johanna, Edward Younge, of Little Durnford, on
whose Brass at Durnford Church are the Arms of Younge
impaling Hyde.
I. Robert Hyde had a lease for lives of the Rectory of
Buckland Newton, Dorset, part of the possessions of the
dissolved Abbey of Glastonbury, and resided there. According
to Lord Clarendon " He had many children and lived to the age
of 80, and left his estate a little impaired by the marriage of
many daughters to his son" (Clarendon's Life). In the Pedi-
gree in Hoare's Modern Wilts (Hundred of Underditch, p. 145)
he is stated to have died without issue. In the Genealogist
vol. xvii, p. 74, in the Pedigree of Castilion, his wife Anne is
Notes on the Hydes of Wilts and Cheshire. 343
stated to have been baptized on the 11th May 156S, and to
have been living in 1603, having had issue Robert, Lawrence,
Henry, Hamlet, Margaret, and Elizabeth, who died young, but
besides these whose baptismal registers have not been found
— except Elizabeth, who was baptized in Salisbury Cathedral
on the Sth June 1595 — there were Anne and Richard. They
were baptized at Buckland Newton: "Anna Hide, Filia Roberti
Hide, Armigeri, firmarii Rectoria^ de Buckland, Xovr. 159s;
Ricardus filius Roberti Hide, Armigeri, December 1599".
Robert Hyde died in 1642 (according to The Genealo-
gist, vol. xvii, p. 74), at West Hatch, and 2 June 164S
administration of his estate was granted to Anne Hyde his
relict (Somerset and Dorset N. c'5 O , vol. iv, p. 59).
Margaret Hyde married at Tisbury, 4 Sept. 1610, Robert
Culliford.
Anne married, as his second wife, Robert Hyde of the
Cheshire branch of the family.
Laurence Hyde, it is thought, married a wife whose
Christian name was Katherine and had, besides a son Robert,
a son Edward. There is a gravestone in Salisbury Cathedral
to a Katherine Hyde, and she cannot otherwise be accounted
for :—
H.S.E. I Kathorina Hyde Relicta Laurentii ! Hyde Arm1 juxta
reconditur qua; | Obiit 10 die Augusti Anno | Dm 1661 ' Ano 6a retatis
54-
The Register gives the date of her burial as 10 August
1661.
1646, March 26. — Katherine Hyde is mentioned in the
Falstone Day Book [Wilts Arch. Mag.f vol. xxvi, p. 370), as
having compounded for the 25th part of her estate and that
of Robert Hyde, orphan, and for all the estate that was of
Laurence Hyde, Esq., "her husband lately dccJ which now is
in her possession and belongcth to the said Robert the heir
or to some other of the children of the said Laurence Hyde,
viz., Heale and Durnford and Cow.-?licld and Dinton the North
Leases in North Wilts and Stratford all in Wilts, the farms of
Arms — Azure, a chevron
Mary Avjs m.
Swaine. T. Bay-
nard.
Elizabeth, [ohanna,m.
in. J. Saint E. Votinge.
Lowe
Hamonel==M"
(i) Margaret
!_J j i
(-pt 18 Susanna, bapt Ann AyliflTe EDWAKD.bapl. n , Frances Avici
*t I.c. aa June 1607. ist wile Feb. 1608-9; ;d>. : bury, and wif«
0 l>cc. 11,74 ; Farl I
01 Clarendon,
Nicholas, bapt o
Dec, 1610 ; Uur q I
Mar. 161011. ;
t, bapt. Judith, m at St -Edmund Okcden,
Peters, Marlboronghi >fa4-
Anna. Maria. Elizabeth.
Laurence, bapl— Amphillis
to Nov. 159- ; ! Tichborne.
bur. 1 Dec.
uapt.
1100 ;
Oct.
Mary Nicholas,
I .. .) bapt. jo
Apr i6n
Laurence, ob. inf
Amphil'.is -ThOBl. Oiafin o( C
— as his 2inl wife.
Helen— Sir John Lowe.
The Kcv. Samuel Kyler.
Frederick,
bapt. July
■ 614 ; ob.
1677-
Anne I <
ob. a,
1087
iUiiis, Jjinrs, bapt.- Mnrgaretj Charlr*. bapt
15 May 1617 ; w !<>w ■>!'
bur. 7 Mav Richard
16S1. Saint
I Lowe.
Robert, LL.D,
Mary— Urv. Pr. Uvinr.
Calhennc. m.
George Gunter,
mnces S11 Mi,,
c Puke Henrietta, mar. James. Mary, m Lord Conway. Catharine, m Chat 3rd
Earl of Dalkeith. Ihuw of QneeMberry.
I TIhmmmi second s.,n of WilHam, we— J Earl of Jaraey,
u Hyde ol Hindon, and, 1776, Karl o( Uaiendon.
344
Wiltshire Notes and Queues.
Hollingbourn, Bramshutt, Hartlewintry and Houghton in
Hants and Surrey, Mrs. Hyde hath paid £50 and engaged to
pay ^50 more". After receipts for ^70 the following occurs :
"The other £\o is respited till it be derided whether Sergeant
Hyde shall pay it or the State's Tenant at Dinton".
II. Laurence Hyde, who married Barbara Castilian (she
was bapt. 16 Sept. 1574), was of the Middle Temple and
became Attorney General to Queen Anne, the wife of James I
and a Knight.. He had a house in the Close, Salisbury,
which stood between the Deanery and the King's House,
and purchased the Manor of I leale in the Parish of Wood-
ford. His burial at Salisbury Cathedral is recorded on the
5th January 164 1-2, and that of his wife on the 3rd Septem-
ber previous. He had a large family, twelve sons and
not less than five daughters, all of whose baptisms, except
that of Catherine, are recorded in the Cathedral Registt r.
His sons were: Lawrence, b. 1593, d. 1643, Sir Robert (Lord
Chief Justice), William, Alexander (who was Bishop of
Salisbury), Sir Francis, Sir Henry, Edward, D.D., Thomas,
D.D., Nicholas (of whom only his baptism on 20th April i"i 1
is known), Sir Frederic/:, Charles (who died an infant of six
months), James (who was Principal of Magdalen Hall). His
daughters were Selina, who died an infant, Anne, who married
Humphry Hyde, Barbara, who died an infant of live yeai ,
Margaret, and Catherine, who married George Gunter and is
mentioned as a legatee in the Will of her brother Alexander.
J. J. I Iammond.
(To be continued.)
THE CHRYSOM BOOK OF ST. THOMAS, NEW SARUM.
(Continued from p. 305 .)
Mr. Marshalles wiffe churched the xxviith of Fcbuare, hercrisnm,
viiirt'., her offeringc, Wid. ob. ; John Whores wifi'e churched the XXVlii <>l
Feb., her cnsonie, v'id., churched at home; Edward Warrens Wine
The Chrysom Book of St. Thomas, Nciv Sarum. 345
churched the xxixth ofFebur., her crisom, vd* her off.. id.', Tlio. Stanlyes
wiffe churched the same Daie, her crisom, via?., her offringe, iiid?. ; John
Sameyes marryed to Jane Colic the fyrst of Marche, there offringe, xvd.',
John Chyvers wiffe churched the seconde of Marche, her ci isom, vid., her
offringe, \\d. ; Rickmans wifle churched the same daie, her crisom, iiiirtf.,
her offringe, nich(il); Tho. Hoopers wiffe churched the thyrde of
Marche, her crisom, vid.. her offringe, iiii</. ; John Marshes wiffe
churched the xxiii of March, her crisom, mid.t her offringe, id. Sum,
xxiis. vid.
R. by me Luke Slicrloke for this qtr. Dy. this same above writen
of xxiij. vid.
Memorand. pd. fr. vii/t. of candelles this qr. xviid.
Item for oyle, viiid.
And for a shovell, v\ud.
From the Annuciaeon of the Virgine Marye to the Feast
of Saint John Baptist, A0. Dni. 1584.
Roberte Smythes wiffe in new streate churched the xxvi of Marche,
her crisom, vi^., her offring, id.] John Pislines wiffe churched the xxvii,
of Marche, her crisom, iiid., her offringe, id. ob. ; Willm. Luxsons wiffe
churched the xxviii of Marche, her childe deceased, her offeringe, id. ;
Richard Cranmer marryed to Anne Abine, the ultimo Maii there off,
iiiirt'. ; Robert Roberts wiffe, vie/., for crisom, John Stonaxe wiffe, u'ud.,
for crisom, Rich. Battens wiffe, childe deceased, all three church'd the
seconde of Apriell there off, vd. ; Raynolde Becomes wiffe churched the
ix of Ap'ell, her crisom, vie?'., her olf., \\<l. ob. ; Henrye Greenes wiffe
churched the xxviii of Ap'ell, her crisom, vid., her offeringe, iii</. ; Roberte
Shershalles wiffe churched the xxvii ol Ap'ell, her crisom, vie/., her
offeringe, id. ; Thomas Eyres wifle churched the last of Ap'ell, her
crisom, viiid?., her off., vd.] Henrye Yongs wiffe churched the iiii ol
Maye, her crisom, vid., her off., uid. ; James Tanners wiffe churched the
ix of Maye, her crisom, vid., her ofringe, iid. ; Mr. Gilles Subbertons
wiffe churched the xiiii of Maye, the child departid, her ofringe, vd. ;
Willm. Eyres wiffe, the clothyer puryfyed the xvi ol May, her crisom,
v\\d.t her off., mid. ob. ; John Jordans wiffe churched the xviii ol May,
her crisom, iiiic/., her off., ud. ; Rich. Parsons wiffe churched the xx of
May, her crisom, vid,, her off., inuL ; Willm. Legges wiffe church'd the
same daye, her crisom, \-\d., her off., \\\d. ; Alexaunder Bawdwiue
marryed to Jahn Haytoure (Joan Hayter, P.R.) xxiiii Maii, xi^. 1 John
Draper marryed to Klizabeth Oread, widowe, ye XXV, off., vd.', Roger
Willis wiffe churched the xxviii of May, her crisom cloth, her off., ud. ;
Richard Wilson marryed to Joan Warde the first ol June, then- off.,
xvrid.; Tho. Knights wiffe churched the same daie, her child dead, her
off., \d. qr. ; Willm. Gilford wiffe churched the iiid. of June, her crisom,
vid.y her off., iid. ob. ; Michel! Gratians wile churched the xvii ol June.
346
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
her crisom, \'\d., her off., \\\d. ob. ; John Mathewes wiffe churched the
same Daie, her oft'., vid., her off., iid. q.
By me Luke Sherloke. Sm., wis.
Willm. Pilles wiffe churched the xxiiii of June, her crisom, via?., her
off., ii^. ; Gabryelles Gyes wiffe churched the xxix of June, her crisom,
iiiirt'., her oft'., iid. ; Willm, Westes wiffe churched the iiiith of July, her
crisom, iiii</., her offringe, id. ; Sacarye Haryngtons wiffe churched the
viof Julye, her crisom, vim/., her off., ; Itm. : the Tailers off., the vth
and vi of Julye, ins. lid.; Thomas Franncs wiffe churched the viii of
Julye. her crisom, Wild., her off., id ob.; Nicholas Acselles wiffe churched
the xiith of Jul}-, her crisom, vid., her off., iiiid?.; Richard Praters wiffe
churched the xiiii of Julye, her crisom, vid., her off., iid. ob. ; John
Boyers witfe churched the xvith of Julye, her crisom, v\d., her of., iiud. ;
Richard Barnes wiffe churched the xxii of July, her crisom in clotli, her
off., rid. ; Thomas Sandiford marryed to Marcy Vokes the xxiii of July,
there offringe, ixs. ; Willm. Michel! marryed to Marye Bastable the iidc.
of August, there offringe, \\\d.\ John Pynnocks wiffe churched the v of
August, her crisom, via?., her off., id. ; Willm. Mayes wiffe churched the
xth of August, her crisom, vid., her off., lid.', John Uproberts wiffe
churched the xvi of August, her crisom, vid., her off., vid. ; Lezans wiffe
churched the xix of August, her crisom, vid., her off., rid. ; Jacomynes
wyffe churched the same daie, her crisom. vie/., her off., iid.; Thomas
Shepperde churched the xxth of August, her crisom, vid., her off., iid. ;
John Thornberryes wiffe churched the xxth of August, her crisom, vid.,
her offringe. rind. ; John Hedes? wiffe churched the last of August, her
crisom, vid., her off. ob. ; Rich. Butts wine churched the same Daie, her
crisom, iiiuf., her off., id. ; John Maylerd marryed to joane (Rawlye, P.R.)
the xxx of August, there off., x vid. ; Johu Coppinger, gent., marryed to
Margy. Weekes the last of August, there off., vis. \d.\ Fawkners wiffe
churched the iiiith of September, her childe dead, her off., id. ob. ;
Willm. Rawles marryed to .Mary Sewood the xii of September, there
ofj^, xixd. ob.; Edmund Rose marryed to Elizabeth Husseye the same
daie, there off., xiii^f. ; Owen Wallis wife churched the xii of September,
her crisom, iiiirt'., her off, iu/. ; Mrs. Momparson puryfyed the xiiiith of
Sept., her crisom. xii^., her off, vid.; Richarde Snelgroves wiffe churched
the xvi of Septcb., lier crisom, vid., her off., ii</. ob. ; John Atkins wiffe
churched the xviii of September, her crisom, vid., her off. Hid. q. ; John
Denmeddes witfe churched the xxii of September, her off., vid., her
crisom, i</. ; Mr. Whyttocks wiffe churched the xvi of Sept.. her crisom,
vid., her off., vd.\ Rich. Elyotts wiffe and Henry Lanes wiffe churclu:d
the xxvii of September, there crisomes \\id., tliere off , viiid. . James
Goddards wiffe churched the same Daie, the child dead, her off., id. <»t».
Sm' xxxiiii& iiiif/. Be me Luke Siierlok senior churchwarden.
Walter (- — ) wyfe churched the viii of October, her crisom, vid., her
off., id.; Mr. Lamberts wiffe churched the xth of October, her crisom,
vid.\ Augustine Golsborowe wiffe church'd the same Daie, her crisom,
The Chrysom Book of St. Thomas, New Sarutn. 347
viii^., her of., iii^. ob. ; John Marks wiffe church'd the same Daie, her
crysom, iiii^., her off., id. ; Willm. Kibby marryed to Mary Lesont the
xii of October, there off., vii^. ; Willm. Whitts wiffe churched the xix of
October, her crisom, x\d., her off., id. ob. ; Jo. Spiringes wiffe churched
the xxi of October, her crisom, vie/., her off., i\d. ; John Cables wiffe
churched the xxiii of October, her crisom, vid., her off., iid. : Conawayes
wiffe churched the xxvi of Oct., her crisom. iiiirt?., her off., id. ob. ; Tho.
Brickett marryed the xxvth of October to Elizabeth Brickett, the
daughter of John Brickett. there off., \\\s. iiiW.; Rich. Englishes wiffe
churched the xxviii of Oct., her crisom. vid, her off., id. ; Tho. Elyotts
wiffe churched the seconde of November, her crisom, xid., her off., vd. ;
Tho. Joycs wiffe churched the xii of November, her crisom, for ii chil-
dren, viiu/., her off., id. ob. ; John Snooke marryed to Anne Michell the
xvi of November, there off, xxd.\ Thomas Brembles wiffe churched the
xvi of November, her crisom. vid., her off, \\\d.] James Ashes wiffe*
churched the xviii of November, her crisom, vid?., her offringe, Wd. ; Tho.
Smythes wiffe churched the xxth day of November, her crisom, vii^.,
her off., Hid. ob.; Symone Bowdons wiffe churched the xxth of November,
her crisom, vi<^., her off, Id.; Thomas Aydyer his wiffe churched the
xxiii of November, her crisom, vid., her off. ob. ; Tho. Morgans wiffe
churched the same Daie, her crisom, Wild., her off., id. ; Thomas Chappie
marryed to Margaret t Dcvine the, xxi of November, there off, 'wis. \\\\d. ;
Willm. Riches wiffe churched the xxv of November, her crisom, iiii</.,
her off, \d. ; Thomas Barkers wiffe churched at home the same daie,
v\\\d.; Thomas Dyer marryed the vi of December, his off, His., \\\\d.\
Thomas Gunnes wiffe churched the xiiii of December, h<-r crisom, xid.,
her off ob. ; Steven TalbottS wiffe churched the xvi of December, her
crisom, vid., her off, \i\id. ; James Albins wiffe churched the xxi of
December, her cris., xid., her (off.) iid. ob.
Sm. xxvis. vd. By mee Luke Sherloke.
Memorand for xiii lb. of candles us. xiiid. ob., wh. was pd. fr. by
Luke Sherloke.
St. Tho. Daye.
Edwarde Godfryes wiffe churched the xxii of December, her crisom,
vi*/., her off., iid. ob.; Roberte Whitts wiffe churched the xxix of
December, her crisom, xid., her off., id. ob ; John Alshcrs wiffe churched
the last of Dec, her crisom, \\\\d., her off., id. ; Richard Spandars wiffe
churched the first of Januarye, her crisom, vie/., her off., Hid.', George
Castles wiffe churched the vii of Januarye, her crisom, vie/., off, iid.;
Grygaryes Clarke marryed, his off, vii'/. ob.; Harrye Boners wiffe
churched the xiiii of Januarie, her crisom, v\d., her off. ob. ; Lawrence
Goldcs wiffe churched the XV of June, her crisom, vid., her off., id. ob. ;
John Gardyners wiffe churched the xvni of Januarie, her crisom, v*/., her
off., id. ; wiffe churched the XX of Januarie, her off., Vid. her \id.
ob. (sic); Tho. Tovyes wiffe churched the xxvth of Januarie, the ch.
34§
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
dead, her off., vd. ; Henrye Girles wiffe churched the same Daie, her
crisom, vd., her off., \id. ; John Demers wiffe churched the xxviii of
Januarye, her crisoni, mid., her off., id. ol). ; Nicholas Dolman marryed
to Joane Hellyerthe last of Januarye, ye off., ius. Viixd. ; Willm. Spensers
wiffe churched the iiii of Februarye, crisom, iiii^., her off., id. ; Mrs.
Venardc churched the xvi. of Feb., her crisom, vid., her off., ixv/. ; Lewes
Reades wiffe churched the xvii, her crisom, v'u/., her off.. \<t. ; Dobhames
wiffe churched the xix of Feb., her crisom, vid., her off., inch. ; Peeter
Brownes wiffe churched the first of Marchc, her crisom, mid., her off., id. ;
Willm. Fieldes wiffe churched the iiid of Marche, her crisom, iiii</., id.,
off.; Robte. Chamberlaines wiffe churched the vith of Marche, her crisom,
iiiirt'., her off., ob. ; Thomas Poldons wiffe churched the xith of March,
her, iiii<^., her, iid.
Sm. xvis. iid. Memorand layed out for viii//. of candelles xxd.
Item for oyle viiid. Receavde the xxiii of March, wis. lid.
From or Ladye Daic to Mid-Somr 1585.
Raynolde Becombes wiffe churched the xxvii of March, her crisom, vid.,
off., inch; Willm. Clarks wiffe churched the last of Marche, her crisom,
vid., her off., iid. ob. ; Mrs. Tytchborne, the wife of Edward Tytchborne,
her crisom, viid., her off., n\d. ; Tho. Daves wiffe churched the same
daie, her crisom, vid., her off., ind. ; The Sadlers wiffe in Catter stret
churched the vii of Aprell, her crisom, vid., off., iid. ob. ; John Sheperdes
wiffe churched the viii of Aprell, her crisom, vid., her off., id. ob. ;
Samwayes wiffe churched the xix of Aprell, her crisom vie/ , her off., vd. :
Raphe Walworthes wiffe churched the xx of Aprell, her crisom, vid., her
off., ind. ; Tho. Sandyfords wiffe churched tin: same Daie, her crisom,
vid., her off., Hid.', Richarde Uptomas wiffe churched the last of Aprell,
her crisom, v\d., the off., iid. ; John Yon^e marryed to Joane Elson the
seconde of Maye, there off., Hid. J Willm. Parsons marryed to Joane
Wallis the same daie, there off., \is. vid. ; Mr. Hutchius Daughter-in-
lawe churched the v of May, her crisom, vid., her off., iiii^/. ob. qr. ; Tho.
Bricketts wiffe churched the xth of Maii, her crisom, vid., her off., v.id,
qr. ; Henrye Packwodc marryed to Joan Hicks XV of May, there off.,
iiii^. ; Thomas Stanleyes wiffe churched the same daie, her crisom, vi</.,
her off., iid. ; Dookes wiffe churched the xxii of May, her crisom, mid.,
her off., id. ; Lewes wiffe churched the xxiiii of May, her crisom, iiiu£,
her off., Id.; Roberte Lawrence marryed to Alse Golde the xxiii <>i
May, there off., vid.', James Belle marryed to Amable Tanner the thiide
of June, there off., xiid. Thomas Lobbe marryed to Christian ( )
the vith of June, there off., iu. vd.] Hew Tompsons wiffe churched the
xxi of June, her crisom, vid., her otf., iiid. Sm. xviii^. ob.
By nice, Thomas Hooper.
(To be continued.)
Association OatJi Rolls for Wiltshire.
349
ASSOCIATION OATH ROLLS FOR WILTSHIRE.
(Continued from p. ?o\.)
No. 2. County Magistrates, Etc.
To the King's Most Excellent Majestic
The humble Addresse of the High Sherriffe, Grand Inquest, Deputy
Lieutenants, Justices of the Peace, and Gentlemen of the said County
of Wiltes, at the Assizes held for tiie said County at New Sai um the
sixth day of March, Anno D'ni 1695.
(Here follows the addresse and recital of the Association).
Edward Somner [High
William Wastfelde
Tho. Stringer
Sherriffe)
Tho. Long
Edm. Lambert
Chas. Tooker
Tho. Goddard
Charles Michell
Tho. Baskervill
Will. Hitchcock-
John Ashe
Charles Bowie
Rich. Crowch
Wm. Brewer
W. M. Beach
Walter Parker
J. Hill
Ja. Lynche
Rich. Ernie
II. Coker
Rich. Barnaby
Tho. Smith
John Benett
Thafin Markes
Joh. Mitchell
Erancis Thistle
Francis Kenton
J. Colerane
thwayte
John Grove
Wm. Pynsent
Wm. Beach
W. Willoughby
Maue. Bocland
Robt. Heath
Jo. Houlton
Walter Ernie
Rob. Croome
Edw. Poore
Will. Hearst
Hampton Fay
No. 3. Deputy Lieutenants and Militia Officers.
To the King's Most Excellent Majestic
Wee, your Majesties most Dutiful! and Loyal 1 Subjects, whose
names are hereunder subscribed, Deputy Lieutenants and Commission
Officers of the Militia of ye County of Wilts, being highly sensible, etc.,
etc.
Commission Officers.
Tho. Mompesson
Will. Hearst
Gabr. Ashley
J no. Brooke
W. Sharpe
J no. Payne
John Long
E. Bayntun
Tho. Pitt
Rob. Jenkins
Hugh Webb
Deputy Lieutenants.
Ri. Grobham Howe
Edm. Lambert
J. Hall
Nic. Bayntun
Alex. Thistlethwayte
J. Smith
Charles Ralegh
Fra. Stonehouse
G. Hungerford
E. Hungerford
Ed. Warn ford
E. Hungerford (appar-
ent ty different sige.)
Nevill Masculine
Jona. Neuman
Wm. Waterman, jun.
R. Glusse
Cha. Mompesson
Tho. Penrodock
Mane. Bocland
Fra. Wrought on
Rich. Sparkcs
Fra. Goddard
35°
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
T. Chamberlayne
Hen. Nourse
Char. Tooker
H. Wroughton
Jo. Young
Henry St. John
Charles Morley
John Trew
William Wastfelde
Wm. Tovvnsend
Robert Payne
Samll. Awbrcy
J no. Mills
Wm. Ashe
Ed. Webb
No. 4.
Tho. Freke
Robt. Dnke
Rich. Barnal >y
John Phillips
Hampton Fay I I
Master)
Herbert Sal
{Treasurer)
The Mayor, Magistrates, Freemen, Svvorne
Freeholders, and others, the Inhabitants of the
Marlebrough in the County of Wilts.
Roger Will mms(Mayor) Thomas Pearse
John Hawkins
John Horner
Rolfe Bay lye
John Kemme
Hen. Stent
Jo. Playsteed
Rich. Symmons
Robt. Cowsey
John Stokes
Wm. Baylye
George Blanchard
Richard Martine
Rich. Worbell
John Elliott
Geo. AylifTe
Jonathan Austine
Willem Hill
Thomas Keynton
Richard Rogers
Humphry Yorke
Richard Munday
Robert Bayaly
Rich. Edney
Thomas Clyde
John Stent
Richard Martin
Robert Olivers
John Clarke-
Fran. Raleigh
John Bowsher
Wal. Shropshire
William Bayley
Josef Hellers
Thomas Poopjay
John Ageer
Samul. Hunt
John Brookes
John Hagge
Edward Johnson
Edward Tapp
William Clarke
Robt. Meggs
Edward Garlicke
Edward Noyes
Harry Gale
John Copland
Tliomas Blandy
Ed. Dangerfild
Thomas Hale (? Hall)
Tho. II tint
John Dure
John Liddiard
Hen. Cary
Tho. Spackman
Rich. Benger
Nathaniel! Bayly
John Fowler
Jer. Fowler
Samuel Fowler
John Kemm, senr.
John Pidding
Jno. Furncll
Francis Tedbury
Tho. Benct
Burgesses, Gem'
Burrough and T
Henry Colman
Richard Colman
Robert Gou< h
Nathll. Men .:
Thomas Hunt
James Kimber
Christopher 1 'c
Edward God
Samuell I \a\
Sa nine: 11 Fo
Jo. Foster
Mic. Foster
Alexander Hen
No. Webb
Thomas Seymi u
Samuell Bayly
Edward Da;
John Gillmore
Willi Benger
William Tarrant
Richard Heale
Robert Wyatt
Edward Lawrano
Ed. Tomkins
John Kumsey
Nicholas Rumsey
Henry Cully
Rich. Smith
Joseph Hockly
Thomas Hancoi 1
Benjamin Gre^-
William Smith
Nathaniell How
Chippenham Parish Church Register.
351
Hugh Hankinson
John Barnes
Rich. Foster
George Brinsdon
The marke of Thomas
Dance
The marke of Robert
New
Nathanaell Prossett
Roger Neall
Joseph Webb
John Seymour
Ben. Busat
Edw. Hopkins
Thomas Wyeatt
John Kenton
Josepli Spackmnn
John Sanders
Robert Bowsher
(surg.).
William Stanmore
Thomas Crabb, scnr.
Richard Hobbs
Th. Love
Robert Butcher, senr.
Robt. Butcher, junr.
Robert Hill
John Parsons
Henry Taylor
John Matthews
William Rayburn (?)
John Eyles
Francis Bowsher
Thomas Greenfield
Thomas Liddiard
John Richardson
Joseph Barret
Francis Evans
Edward Bell
Chris. (?) Burges
Joseph Oliver
Henry Glide
Alexander Alder
John Comling
Francis Braithwaite
Nicho. Kimber
{To be continued.)
Joseph Cannon
William Blake
Will. Page
Thomas Miles
Sam. Alexander
Tho. Chun
Hugh Blagrave
Jno. Bridgman
Robert Croom
Robt. Parkes
John Laburn
Thomas Smith
Henry Shepherd
William West
Jeremiah Burgis
Tho. Fowler
Edward Randall
Jno. Blissett, junr.
Stephen Hill
Tho. Spackman
James Weekes
Thomas Pearse
L. J. Acton Pile.
CHIPPENHAM PARISH CHURCH REGISTER.
{Vol. /, p. 299.;
The Clerk's Verses, 1586.
•'When I Henry Nash was chosen clarke by the whole consents,
I strayt way wrote thys woordes incontenente ; —
The vij day of Auguste as heare may be seenne,
In the xxviijth yeare of the Raynne of our queenne,
M. Wiliam Chauefen, being then Vycar, of this can Recorde
Yt was the datte 15S6 of our lordc."
The prose rejoinder is rather crushing, viz :—
11 Henry Nashe methiuketh that you, beinge suche a learned Clarke
as you be, shoulde not in suche vile, abused, and diffkulte maner penne
Wiltshire Nolcs and Quei ics.
the names of the Cristened, maried, and Decessed as they novve bee; for
they be so written novve that one cannot, without greate industrie and
labour, knowe the names of those whose sonne or daughter it is that is
baptised, maried, or buried. For the better accomplishing therefor
your Duetye in this behalfe I have set downe a brefe rule at the end of
the names of those wch weare baptised in the yeare of our lordo in your
vers[es] above wrighten. In fine, hopeinge that you will (cum Jiastd et
scuto) fullfill my desier, I commend you wth my hartyc comendacons to
the chefe shepehearde of our soules : Otherwise (actum est de amicitid.
Vale.)
Yours at all assaye,
Si. M. B.
The Rev. Wm. Chalfont was then Vicar, but who is
M. B. ? Does Si. stand for "signed"? The expression
"yours at all assaye" seems obscure, something follows like
"&c," but the edge of the page is frayed. What is the
special point of cum hasta et scuto ? The "brefe rule " is set
down on page 24 thus : — "You muste set downe the names of
theyr fathers and of their godfathers and godmothers."
Then follows a specimen heading for the baptismal entries
of 1587, after which is written, "thus you muste write at
ye begininge of every yeare, and the moncthes as Mr. Walker
hath wr[i]tten."
With a very few exceptions the " rule " was barren of
results, and Nash continued to write his surnames as he
pronounced them, on the model of his Chavefen for Chalfont,
in the manner that makes the names in Elizabethan entries so
generally unintelligible.
W. Symonds.
A CALENDAR OF FEET OF FINES FOR WILTSHIRE.
{Continued from p. 2 35. )
Elizabeth.
Hilary Term.
458. Anno 11. — William Moggerydge, gen., and Ralph
Winter and Elizabeth his wife ; messuages and lands in
Porton and Idmyston. ^40.
A Calendar of Feet of Fines for I Villshire.
459. Anno 11. — Robert Wall and Christopher Willis;
messuages and lands in New Sa rum. 13^ marks.
460. Anno 11.— Anthony Gearing and Adrian Fryc and
Thomas Baskett, arm., and Bridget his wife ; messuages and
lands with common pasture for all kinds of animals in
Clyntons Woode in Lyddiard Millisent, Shawe and Braydon.
260 marks.
461. Anno 11. — William Rushelcy and Thomas Nicholas
and John Trendcr; messuages and lands in Crekelade and
Chelwoorthe. ^So.
462. Anno 11. — Walter Newsam, gen., and Thomas Fox
and Henry Cove and Thomas Cove, gen., and Jane his wife ;
messuages and lands in Leigh and Ashton Kaynes. 200 marks.
463. Anno 11.— Giles Ball and William Cornewc and
Edmund Wykes and Eliz. his wife; mc^na^s and lands with
common pasture for ten sheep and sixty cows in Donhed St.
Mary.
464. Anno 11. — John Spiller, arm., and William Holte
and Ralph Cawley, gen., of the manor of Highwaye;
messuages and lands with twenty shillings rents in I lighwaye.
Easter Term.
465. Anno 11. — John Dale and Thomas Chaffyn, arm.;
messuages and lands in Warmester. j£a°-
465^7. — Anno 1 1. — Alice Gawen, widow, and John Browne
alias Clement ; messuages and lands with common pasture for
forty animals and three hundred sheep in Cast Knoyll. £40.
466. Anno 11. — Reginald Basinge and Thomas Hall,
arm. ; messuage and lands in Wilton. £%o.
467. Anno 11. — Christopher Wcckcs, gen., and John
Younge, gen., and Mary his wife; messuage and lands
in Wcstharncham. £40.
468. — Anno 11. — Leonard Lcssctcr and Antony Browse
rt;/^/Thomas 1 1 alio, gen., and John Halle son and heir of the
same Thomas, and Dorothy his wife; messuages and land-
in Bradford, Trowle and Trowbridge. XSo-
1$ B
354
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
469. Anno 11.— Richard Hodgson and Peter Kymer;
messuage and land in Crcklade. £a°-
470. Anno 11. — John Oliver and Hugh Pantynge and
Richard Modye, arm. ; messuages and lands in Garsdon with
common pasture for all animals in Braydon. ,C\°-
471. Anno 11. — Nicholas Heynes and Jenever Hynton
and Sibill his wife; messuage and lands in the parish of St.
Maiy, Cry ck lade. jCa°-
472. Anno 1 1.— John Lyght and Tristram Mathewe,
gen., and Elizabeth his wife ; lands in East Down ton. ^40.
473. Anno 11.— William Dodson and Robert Adams
and Margaret his wife ; messuage and land in Calne, Studley
and Stock. jQa°-
474. Anno 11. — Thomas South, arm., and William Lam-
berd, gen., and Elizabeth his wife and Thomas Lamberd son
and heir of the said William Lamberd ; messuages and lands
with common pasture in West Ambresbur)- and Cheat
Ambresbur}- alias Ambrosburyc. ^80.
475. Anno 11. — John Slighe and Richard Gore, arm.,
and Mary his wife; half a messuage and lands in Yatton
Keynell.
476. Anno 11. — John Marvyn and John Smallam and
John Maggs and Emma his wife; lands in Bysshopestrooe.
477. Anno 11. — William Webbc and Thomas Baskctt,
arm., and Bridget his wife; lands in Lyddeard Myllysent,
with the advowson of the church of Lyddeard Myllysent
,£40.
478. Anno 11. — Reginald Howse, gen., and Thomas
Browne, gen., and Margery his wife; messuage and lands
with common pasture in Avebury and Stanmer as well as the
liberty of the chapel of Backhampton with all and all manner
of tythes of grain, etc., arising from two farms with lands and
tenements lying in Backhampton, Avebury and Stanmer.
A Calendar of Feel of Fines for Wiltshire. 355
479. Anno 1 1. — Edmund Stokes and William Rede, gen.,
and Matilda his wife ; messuages and lands in Tytherton
Lucas and Chippenham. j£&S-
480. Anno 11. — Richard Pykeringe, gen., and John
Stumpe, gen., and Henry Knyvett, arm., and Elizabeth his
wife ; messuages and lands in Malmesburyc, Charleton
Malmesbcrye, and Brynckworth. ^40.
481. Anno 11.— Edward Love and Hugh Hare, gen.,
and Richard Modye, arm. ; messuages and lands in Milborn.
482. Anno 11. — Henry, Lord Herbert, of Cardiff, and
Charles Vaughan, arm., and William, Earl Pembroke, keeper
of the king's house with Lord Herbert, of Cardiff; the cattle
of Warden, alias Wardoure, with appurtenances, with the
manors of Sutton Maundfcld, alias Sutton Maundvyle and
Warder, alias Wardoure; messuages and lands with forty
shillings rent in Sutton Maundfeld, alias Sutton Maundvyle,
and Warder, alias Wardoure. £s&o.
483. Anno 11. — Michael Flemyng, gen., and Thomas
Dowse, gen.; manor of Bramshawe, alias More Closes, with
messuages and lands in Bramshawe, alias More Closes.
484. Anno 11. Richard Pyckering and Hugh Bethcll
and Henry Knevet, arm., and Elizabeth his wife ; messuages
and lands and two shillings rent, in Malmesbury, Malmesbury
Charleton, Charleton Malmesbury, Cowfeldc, alias Cowfolde,
Brynckworth, Burton Hill, and Rodborne. 40 marks.
485. Anno 11. — William Lovcday and Thomas Cawen,
arm. ; messuage and land in Bavcrstokc.
486. Anno 1 1. — Thomas Napper and Alexander Staple-,
gen., and Thomas Bryndc and Agnes his wife ; messuages
and lands in Wanborowgh.
Trinity Term.
487. Anno 11. — William Lavington and Robert Framp-
ton, arm., and Margery hi- wife ; mc-suage and land with
common pasture in Echilhampton and Stcrte. 13c marks.
B1J 2
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Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
488. Anno it.— John Crueley, arm., and Robert Framp-
ton, arm., and Margery his wife ; messuages and lands with
common pasture in Echilhampton. 130 marks.
489. Anno 11. — George Browne and Ambrose Paynell;
land in Pirton. ,£40.
490. Anno 1 1. — Robert Alande and Henry Alande and
John Reade, sen., gen., and Joane his wife ; lands in the parish
of Langley Burrell. £40.
491. Anno 11. — John Gyngell and ]o\m Reade, sen., and
Joane his wife ; lands in Longley Burell. £40.
492. Anno 11. — Richard Slade and Henry Peade, gen. ;
messuage and lands in Bromeham. £a°-
493. Anno 11. — Katheriue Paget, widow, formerly wife
of Sir Henry Paget, knt., Lord Paget of Beawdesert, deceased,
and Henry Knyvet, arm., and Elizabeth his wife, the manor
of Brokenborowghc ; messuages and lands and sixty shillings
rent in Brokenborowghc. ,£855.
494. Anno 11. — John Hardkyn, gen., and Henry Pcade,
gen.; messuages and lands with common pasture in Seyntyde-
mershc, Clynghill, Brodmede, Pylleryfyld, Westfylde, Myddel-
feld, and Strowde, in Bromeham, Rowde, Heydenton, Powl-
stede, Seyn, and Melsham. £%o.
495. Anno n. — William Hapgood and William Chadcr-
ton, arm., and Bridget his wife, Thomas Chaderton, arm., and
Laurence Chaderton, brothers of the said William ; messuage
and lands in Collingeborne Kyngcston, and Collingeborne
Brunton, with common pasture for ten cows, two hundred
sheep, and six horses, in Collingeborne Kyngeston, and
Collingeborne Brunton. £^o.
496. Anno 11. — Giles Estcourtc, gen., and John Wood-
roffe and Agnes his wife; half the manor of Whitley, alias
Whctligh, half of three messuages and lands, with ten shillings
rent and common pasture for all animals in Whitley, Calne,
Cowiche, Cowiche Deane, Compton Basset, and Bremhill, alias
Bremble. 200 marks. E. A. Fry.
(To be continued.)
Peculiars of the Dean anti Chapter of Sarum.
PECULIARS OF THE DEAN AND CHAPTER OF
SARUM.
{Continued from p. 326.)
Absolom, James, of Sunning, Berks, & Rose Heyward, of
the same, sp. ; B'dman, Robt. Buckeridg, of the same;
20 Aug. 1 674.
Cousins, Andrew, of Lyme Regis, Dorset, sailor, & Mary
Langford, of the same; B'dman, Hesekiah Miller, of the
same "tailor"; 27 Aug. 1674.
Webber, Nicholas, of Lyme Regis, Dorset, sailor, &
Susannah Bragg, of the same ; John Bragg, of the same,
gent. ; 13 Jan. 1674-5.
Cleeve, Joseph, whiter, & Mary James, both of Lyme
Regis; B'dman, George Baker, carpenter, of the same;
1 1 June 1675.
Cogan, Edward, merchant, & Mary Cogan, both of Lyme
Regis ; B'dman, Robert Holden, of the same, merchant ;
8 May 1675 ; Wit., Mary Wesly, Tim. Halett.
Newall, Nicholas, & Mary Coad, both of Lyme Regis;
B'dman, John Leman, of the same, merchant ; 28 June 1675.
Newell seals with a merchants mark between T.I.
Dogge, Joseph, of Sherborne, Dorset, & Elizabeth
Dumber, of the same; B'dman, Richard Jeffery ; 25 Oct.
1678.
Hannum, Willm., of Pointington, co. Somt., & Joane
Dunham, of Sherborne ; B'dman, Stephen Kinge, of Point-
ington ; 4 Aug. 1679.
Thornton, Samuel, clerk of Sherburne, & Mai y Clement,
of Nethercompton ; Wit., John Thornton, Paul Clement ;
19 Dec. 1679.
Oakly, John, & Mary Ecdcs ; B'dman, Edward Eedes, of
South Barrow, Somerset ; 8 Aug. [679.
35S
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Part II of Bundle 2.
Kinsman, J 00 fry (Geoffrey), of High worth, Wilts, yeo., &
Mary Seager, of the same; B'dman, Wm, Brinde, ofWest-
roppe in High worth; S Apr. 1 67S.
Hasell, William, of Ramsbury, Wilts, wid. and tanner, &
Mary Wescott, of Chute, Wilts, sp. ; B'dman, Thomas Crooke,
of Sarum, currier ; 19 Apr. 167S.
Judd, Edward, of Ramsbury, Wilts, collarmaker, & Anne
Hill, of the same ; B'dman, Robert Meadcalfe, of the same,
carpenter; 11 June 1678.
Butler, George, of Portsmouth, co. South., cupper, & Anne
Mills, of West Harneham, sp. ; B'dman, John Compton, of
East Harnham, sergemaker ; 8 July 1678.
Blanchard, Gabriell, of Burbage, Wilts, yeo., & Elizabeth
Adley, of Baydon, Wilts ; B'dman, Richard Kimbcr, of Bur-
bage, yeo. ; 19 July.
Durneford, John, of Bedwyn Magna, yeo., & Sarah Franck-
lin, of Woodborough, Wilts, sp. ; B'dman, Thos. Palmer, of
Sarum, musitian ; 25 July.
Clempson, George, of Hungerford, Berks, apothecary, &
Anne Mosse, of Bagshott in Shalforne, [?] Berks, sp. ; B'dman,
George Freind, of Sarum, apothecary ; 13 Aug.
Plott, Adam, of Burbage, Wilts, yeo., Cv Hannah Clyde, of
the same, sp. ; B'dman, Christopher Barlie, of the same, yeo;
21 Sept.
Morse, Robert, of Burbage, Wilts, husb., <S: Elizabeth
Harding, of Shipton, co. South., sp. ; B'dmcn, John Harding,
of the same, husb., John Ashton, of Sarum, taylor, 8 Oct. 107s.
Sherfield, Richard, of Winterborne Monkton, Wilts, gent, &
Anne Ring, of Netherhaven, Wilts, sp. ; 15 Oct
Hedges, Henry, of the Close, Sarum, cheriergeon, & Frances
Swanton, of the same, sp. ; Father, Francis Swanton, of
Humington, consents 16 Oct.
Prancard, John, of Pindford, in Sherborne, Dorset, & Eliza-
beth Hooper, of Stoale, co. Somerset, sp.; B'dmcn, George
Peculiars of tlic Dean and Chapter of Sarum. 359
Frye, of Mudford, co. Somerset, w., Samuel Thornton, Vicar
of Hay don, Edward Prankcrd ; 9 Oct.
Genge, Thomas, of Rime, Dorset, & Elizabeth Stroud, of the
same; B'dmen, Henry Grimstead, of Yetminstcr, Dorset, W.
Moses Stroud ; 7 Oct.
Heath, Richard, of Stratton St. Margarets, yco., & Joanc
Greene ; B'dman, Ambrose Greene, of Highworth, cordwinder ;
19 Sept.
Browne, Thomas, of Bedwyn Magna, hush , & Elizabeth
Reynolds, of Burbage, sp. ; 19 Nov. ; \Y., Ric hard Barley.
Gilford, John, of West Harnham, broadweaver, & Dorothy
Randy, sp., of the same ; B'dman, William Nayle, yeo. ;
2 Dec.
Allen, George, of Sarum, butcher, & Sarah Mills, of West
Harnham, sp. ; B'dman, John Whatly, of the same, cloth-
worker ; 2 Dec.
Rushly, Joshua, of Ramsbury, Wilts, grocer, & Anne
Collcns, of Chiute, Wilts, sp. ; B'dman, Joseph Fisher, of
Ramsbury, tanner; S Jan. 1678/9.
Roberts, Thomas, of Bawdripp, co. Sonit, clerk, & Elinor
Lovell, of the Close, Sarum, sp. ; B'dman, George Fromc, jun.,
of the same, gent. ; 10 Jan.
Coborne, Thomas, of Merc, Wilts, linen weaver, & Saffhira
Pitman, of the same, sp. ; B'dman, William Shad well, of Sarum,
cutler ; 2 1 Jan.
Shepherd, Edward, of Manningford Abbas, Wilts, miller, &
Mar}' Gammon, of Burbagc, Wilts, sp. ; B'dman, Anthony
Gammon, of the same, hush. ; 21 Jan.
Avoake, William, of Sherborne, Dorset, Mary Rapson, of
the same; B'dman, Robert Rapson, of the same; 28 Nov.
1678.
Combs, John, of North Wotton, Dorset, & Grace Veatman,
of the same ; B'dman, John Daggle, of the same ; 22 Oct
1678.
Gould, Benjamin, of St. Peter's, Dorchester, gener., &
Blanch Walrond, of Turner's Puddle, Dorset, wid. ; B'dman,
360
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Thomas Hall, of St. Peter's, Dorchester, gencr. Gould Seals :
three bulls' heads ppr. cabosed, crescent for difference ; 21 Jan.
1678/9.
Batt, Robert, of Pewsey, Wilts, husb., & Frances Pcarsc, of
Durly, in Burbage Wilts, sp. ; B'dman, John Blake, of Bur-
bage, husb. ; n Mar. 167S/9.
Hunt, James, of Durnford, Wilts, grocer, & Elizabeth Han-
cocke, of the same, sp. ; B'dmcn, Nathaniel Sturidgc, ofSarum,
glover, Willm. Watridge [signs Waters], of Durnford, yeo. ;
25 Feb. 167S/9.
Bucksey, Humphry, of Ruscombe, Berks, & Mary Freeman,
of the same, sp. ; B'dman, Robert Buckeridge, of Sunning,
Berks ; 27 Apr. 1679.
Micklem, Nathaniel, of Hurley, Berks, yeo., & Anne Burton,
of Hurst, Wilts, sp. ; B'dman, John Burton, of the same, yeo. ;
12 Sept. 1678.
Garrett, William, of Sunning, Berks, & (Catherine Richard-
son, of the same, wid. ; B'dman, Robert Buckeridge, of the
same ; 30 Dec.
Hill, Simon, of Hurst, Berks, fellmonger, & Anne Pace, of
the same, sp. ; B'dman, William Kentfield, of the same ;
23 May.
Rider, Richard, of Sunning, co. Berks and Oxon., & Eliza-
beth Richardson, of the same, wid.; B'dman, Robt. Buckeridge,
of the same ; 29 Sept.
Withered, William, senior, & Hester Hanson; B'dman,
William Withered, jun., of Blewberry, Berks; 23 July.
Bond, John, of North Stoke, Oxon, c\i Anne Cox, of Gres-
ton [?] Up Thorp, in Blewberry, Berks ; B'dman, Richard
Cox, of Aldworth, Berks; 14 May.
Church, Olliver, of Fast Chalow, Berks, yeo., .V Fllenor
Savage, of Wantinge, Berks, sp. ; B'dman, Michael Stevens,
of the same, yeo. ; 20 June.
Weston, Anthony, of Wantinge, Berks, cloathworkc r, &
Anne King, of the same, sp. ; B'dman, John Martin, ot the
same, yeo.; 2 Apr. 1679.
Morse of Rodboume Cheney, efe. 361
Tubb, John, of Watitinge, Berks, yco., & Dorothy Wiblin,
of Denchworth, Berks, sp. ; B'dman, Anthony Wiblin, of
Wantinge, yeo. ; 2 Mar. 167S.
(To be continued.)
MORSE, OF RODBOURNE CHENEY, Etc.
In the Articles on Heddington and the Child family
(Wilts N. & O., vol. ii, pp. 207 and 261) mention is made of
the elopement of Sarah Child with the Earl of Westmorland
and their marriage at Gretna Green in 17S2; but there was
another little marriage episode connected with a partner in
the bank about thirty-five years earlier, when Elizabeth Payne,
niece of John Morse, married against the wishes of her uncle.
This should interest your readers, as the Morses, like the
Childs, were a Wiltshire family.
John Morse, of London, goldsmith, being "somewhat
weak in body", made his will dated 26 July 1756; he left
various legacies, including /10 to the minister and £$o to
the poor of Rodburn Cheney, and expressed his wish to be
buried in the chancel of the parish church of Rodburn Cheney
"where several of my Relatives lye Interred "; he gave his
real estate in the counties of Wilts, Oxford, Bucks, and
Warwick— that in Wilts being described as houses and lands
at Morcdon in the parish of Rodburn Cheney, and part of the
tithes of the same parish— to Sir Francis Child and Samuel
Child "two of my partners" in trust, subject to a life estate
given to his sister Elizabeth Morse, for his niece Elizabeth
Payne and her children. Within nine months, on 23 April
1737, he added a codicil from which we learn that his niece
had without his consent married Peregrine Bertie, esq., and
directed the Trustees to pay the profits of the estate to such
persons as his niece Elizabeth Bertie should appoint, exclu-
sive of her husband. Ten days later, on 3 May 1737, he made
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another codicil, and stated that his niece had given him "great
offence by marrying with Peregrine Bertie, Esquire, in opposi-
tion to my request to the contrary, and his conduct being very
disagreeable to me"; he authorized the trustees to appoint
such persons as they thought fit, "the said Peregrine Bertie or
any person recommended by him excepted", to receive the
rents, etc., and pay to anyone his niece might appoint, "ex-
clusive and without any controul of her said husband ", ,£400
a year; which he empowered the trustees to increase to £Goo
a year if they thought fit, "provided the said Peregrine Bertie
have no concern therein". Two more codicils were made, in
the last of which, dated 25 July 1 738, it is mentioned that the
niece had a son, Peregrine Morse Bertie, and his interest and
that of any other children to be born of the marriage was
limited to a life interest only, the interest of any children they
might have being expressly left unaffected. In the will, as
already mentioned, was a bequest of /jo to the minister of
Rodburn Cheney ; in the first codicil was a legacy of £200 to
the Rev. Mr. Hinton Haggard, Vicar of Rod burn Cheney ; and
in the last ^50 each to Hill Haggard and Mary Haggard, two
of the children of Henry Haggard, deceased.
John Morse died on 28 May 1739, and the will, with the
codicils annexed, was proved the 4 June following (P.C.C,
Henchman, 134).
Further information is gleaned from a private Act of
Parliament (Cap. 46) passed 1 Geo. III. From it we learn
that Peregrine Morse Bertie, the first child of Peregrine and
Elizabeth Bertie, had died during the life-time of John Morse,
and that in 1 760 there were six children another Peregrine,
Elizabeth, Albemarle, Sophia, Louisa, and Henrietta, of whom
Peregrine only had attained twenty-one years of aye. Eliza-
beth Morse, the sister who had a life interest in the Wiltshire
property, was also dead, and so were the two trustees, Sir
Francis and Samuel Child, a^ well as another, Walter Prysc,
added by the first codicil of the will ; the trust devolved on
Agatha Child, the widow of Samuel, ami Francis Child, his
3^3
eldest son. In January 1756, Mrs. Child had obtained from
the Duke of Queensbury and Dover a lease of the farm-house
and farm of the desmesne of the Manor of Ambrosbury, afs.
Amesbur3r Earls, and some other land there, for ninety nine
years, subject to the lives of Peregrine Bertie the youngi r,
Albemarle Bertie, and Sophia Bertie, at two rents of £20 and
^5 year!}'. Peregrine Bertie the younger having come of age,
and being desirous of having an allowance, had filed a petition
in Chancery, and eventually the estates were re-settled under
this Act.
Who Peregrine Bertie the husband was is not clear ; but
he was probably a member of the family of the Earls of
Abingdon who came in for a large share of the Dan vers
property.
Of the Morses more is known, but not sufficient to
establish the identity of John Morse. The only people of the
name of Morse mentioned in the will are Henry Morse, of
Old Street, London, and his son who lived in Hounslow, and
John Morse, of Pitton, near Wells, Somerset.
There was a John Mors, who died in 15.13, who by his
will directed that he should be buried in the church of Chesul-
dene " before the Rode". William Morse the elder, of Rod-
bourne Cheney, who died in 1578, left to his son William
lands in Heydon Wcckc, Moordon, and Pyrton. He had a
brother Thomas, who ma}- have been Thomas Morse, of Bad-
burie Wyke, in Chyssleden, whose will was proved 3 Feb.
1581/2 (P.C.C., 6, Tirwhitc). In a note affixed to this will of
sums owing to the deceased it is stated that M the Townc of
Badberie doe owe me fiftcne shillinges, which 1 laydc outc for
the Queene". Others of the name appear at Badbury; and
in 1720 Anthony Morse, son of William, of Chislcdeo, became
Vicar of Rodbourne Cheney; in 1737 he was Vicar of Han-
nington, apparently making way for HintOn Haggard, men-
tioned already. He would seem, however, to have died early,
as in 1747, when the common fields of Badbury were enclosed,
we find among the proprietors Theodora Morse, ofSwindon,
Wiltshire Notes and Queries,
widow of Anthony Morse, clerk, deceased, and William Morse,
her son, an infant under twenty-one years of age. These
details have been picked up from time to time without special
reference to the Morse family, and can no doubt be largely
added to by the readers of the Wilts N. & Q.
J.S.
STEEPLE ASHTON CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS.
Before describing the contents of the old Steeple Ashton
Churchwardens' Account Book, it would be as well to say
something of the appearance of the volume which contains
them. Its size is 1 3 J by 10 inches, and it is one inch in thick-
ness. The binding is of smooth dark brown leather, and
consists of the two covers and a flap. The book is
strengthened by the addition of three brown leather bands,
laced with strips of white leather, and a strap and simple iron
buckle provide a fastening. Both cover.-,, as well as the flap,
are ornamented with impressions of the same stamps as those
which are known to occur on a copy of the Queen's Reinetn-
brancers Miscellaneous Book, 22, in the Record Office. 1 hey
are on a border of foliage and flowers, with a falcon, hound,
and two escutcheons, one bearing a double-headed eagle dis-
played, and the other the binder's trade mark. This latter is
like the figure 4 reversed, with a cross crosslet at the end of
the horizontal line. The letter Z is intertwined with the
lower part of the figure .j, and underneath is the letter K
encircled with twigs. Unfortunately this trade mark has not
yet been identified. The binding is early sixteenth century,
English, and of much interest and rarity.
The book contains one hundred and three leaves of paper
and one sheet of parchment, which is placed last. Many of
the pages were originally left blank, but a large number of
them have been utilised at later dates. 1'hc consequence i>
that several entries are not in chronological .sequence. I liese
Steeple Ashton Churchwardens* Accounts.
3*5
errant memoranda will be printed in the order in which they
occur in the manuscript, while the fact that they arc in-
sertions will be pointed out in footnotes.
The period covered by these accounts is from t 543 to 1668
inclusive, that is, from 34 Hen. YIII to 9 Chas. II, hut the
records are not continuous. There are no entries of accounts
from 1544 to 1557, years which include the last four of
Hen. VIII, all the reign of Edw. VI, and the first four years
of the reign of Mary. Nine years arc omitted in the reign of
Elizabeth, namely, 1563- 1568, 1599, 1600, and 1602. Nor are
there any entries for the years 1621, 1631, and 1640, but
curiousty enough vestries were held all through the time of
the interregnum.
We find considerable variations in the spelling of the
name of the parish. Beginning with Stiplcashton. we have
successively Stypleashton, Styplcaysheton, Stypleasheton,
Stypleaisheton, Stypleaishton, Stypleassheton, Steplc Ashe-
ton, and it is not till we come to 1589 that Steeple Ashton
occurs. After that date, the following additional variants
occasionally crop up : — Steple Ashton and Steepl Ashton.
The ecclesiastical parish at that time comprised the
tithings of Steeple Ashton, West Ashton with the hamlet of
East Town, Henton, and Scmington, with the hamlet of
Littleton; but as Scmington was in another hundred, and an
ancient chapelry with two churchwardens, it managed it^ own
affairs and only appears in these accounts as paying annual
dues to the Mother Church.
The church rate was levied on the yard land, of which
there were about a hundred and fifty in the first three
tithings. Taking the yard land at 30 acres, this would repre-
sent 4,500 acres, and as the total area was 5,443, the extent of
the common land would be 943 acres. The church rate was
supplemented by "ales", especially at Whitsuntide, and by
smoke farthings. The rate on the yard land in ordinary
times fluctuated between one and two shilling-, but during
and immediately after the Rebellion and the Commonwealth,
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Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
it frequently rose to four or even five shillings, the money
being required "for the reparacion of the church" or "for
the repairing of the church in glas windowes, leades", etc.
This extra expenditure points to damage caused during the
Civil War, and accords with the local tradition that after the
battle of Roundway, in 1643, Cromwell's troops, with their
horses, were quartered in the church, and at that time
destroyed the stained glass windows and defaced the stone
carving.
The parish possessed a church house, for which a small
quit rent was paid to the reeve of the royal manor. The
repair of this house was a constant source of expense. In
1543 there were in the tower, which at that time was sur-
mounted by a lofty spire, live great bells and one small
(sanctus) bell. The first three and the great bell were ''new
founded" in 1607, and the great bell was again recast in 1616.
A sixth bell was added to the peal in 1666. The day bell was
rung at four in the morning and the curfew at eight in the
evening.
The churchwardens' annual accounts are seldom given in
full, more often than not only the summary of the receipts
and payments being entered, together with a note of the
balance handed over to the in-coming warden-,. One cannot
help being struck by the enormous quantities of wine— Mus-
cadine or Sack at about a shilling a quart -used for the I lo!y
Communion, as much as fifteen quarts being consumed at a
single celebration. In 1639, the wine bill came to £4 19S. 6d.
for a hundred quarts for seven celebrations.
The volume is rich in inventories, but none of them can
compare in interest with the prc-Kcformation one of
34 lien. VIII. The allocation of scats is the subject ol
frequent memoranda. There are echoes of four law suits -
one about the church house in 15S7 ; another, in 1609, about
church dues on certain lands claimed by Trowbridge ; the
third, in the Chancellor's Court, in 1636, relating to a dis-
pute as to the position of the pulpit and "minister's reading
Steeple Ashton Churchwardens* Accounts. 367
•place" which, in 1605, had been erected "in the middle alley
and common passage". And in the accounts for 1639 are two
items showing that the title to the Church House had to be
defended in courts of law.
In addition to the management of the affairs of the church
by the vicar and churchwarden-, with the assistance of the
clerk and, for a brief period, of sidesmen, we obtain con-
siderable insight into the civil government of the parish, for
we have more than one record of the election of a constable,
and annually of the appointment for each tithing of waymen
or supervisors of the highways, of collectors for the poor, or
overseers, and in 1573 of a distributor.
The following names of families, which are well known
to genealogists in this county, are found in these pages, and
are here mentioned in the order in which they first appear: —
Stileman, Martyn, Marks, Lucas, Boucher, Whatlcy, Sylvcr-
thorne, White, Flower, Long, Greenhill, Crooke, Palmer,
YVilkins, Duke, Tanton, I licks, Webb (George, vicar 1605-36,
afterwards Bishop of Limerick), Bennett, Carpenter (Henry,
vicar 1636-60, Chaplain of the House of Commons, and after-
wards Canon of Windsor), Blagdeo, Beach, Hicks (clothier),
Jeffrayes (merchant), Awdry (merchant), and Harris. Of
other names which may still be found in the parish arc those
of Winslow, Tucker, Hancock, Holloway, Drinkwater, Sims,
Griffen, Bartlctt, Bull, Miles, and Jordan.
At the end of the book is a continuous record of the
dealings with the church stock from 1603 to 1629. There arc
also detached entries for the year 1634, 1639, and 1644. Of
the stock the Churchwardens were trustees, and they lent it,
with the consent of the vestry, to the parishioners, at ten per
cent, interest, in sums varying from twenty shillings to ten
pounds. A man who wished to borrow was required to find
two sureties to guarantee the repayment of the loan. The
year's interest was paid on St. Stephen's Day, and the income
derived from the money thus invested was distributed among
the poor, sometimes in clothing — such as frieze, canvass or
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
unbleached linen, and boots — and at other times it was given
in money.
Small portions of these accounts have already appeared
in print. Under the title "Documents from the Parish RegisU r
of Steeple Ashton, Wilts", a few extracts were incorporated
in a paper read before the Cambridge Camden Society,1
March 13th, 1843, DJ the Rev. W. C. Lukis, M.A., who was at
that time curate of Bradford-on-Avon. Canon Jackson, also,
in his paper on " Rood Ashton ",: made some quotations. But
the most copious extracts that have been taken from this book
were made by Toulmin Smith,"1 to illustrate the government
of a parish in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He
considers that this record gives a good illustration as to the
management, by the Vestry and Parish Officers, of parish
estates; and as to self-taxation. In the method of dealing
with the Parish Stock by granting small loans at interest to
help those needing them and in the disposal of the interest
for the benefit of the destitute, he sees "a complete and most
interesting illustration of the action of the Friendly Society
principle."
A few brief explanations will be found in the footnotes,
but for the most part the records will be left to speak for
themselves.
It only remains to be added that the work of preparing
these accounts for the press has been made light and easy
through the patient labour of Mr. V. M. Willis, who transcribed
the whole book with the utmost care, accuracy, and neatness,
more than twenty years ago, when lie was living at Steeple
Ashton House.
E. P. KNUBLEY.
1 Vol. for 1843, pp. 2'J2-i;.
2 Wilts AreJueological Magazine, vol xiii, p. 318, ct scq.
3 "The Parish: its Functions an»l Oiliccr.s", by Toulmin Smith, of
Lincoln's Inn, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, London: .s. Sweet, 1. Chancery
Lane. 1854.
Steeple Ashton Churchwardens? Accounts. 369
Steeple Ashton Church wardens' Accounts, 1543-1 60S.
I have almoste forgett to wryte.
1 581 . — 1It.1 An Inventory of ye goodes that belongeth to the
Churche : — Inprimis one Com'unyon Cuppe p'cell gillt waying 16 oz.,
dwt. 13, & farthyng goold vvyght at 6s. ye oz., ^5 os. 1 \d. ; It., one
Surplys; It., 1 by bell & one book of Krrasmus; It., 2 books of Comm-Mi
prayer; It., 1 pylpitt clothe & 2 poles ofbrj
Rentes dew to the churche yerely put downe for oure remmem-
brance —
Margerett Crewe payethe yerely 4s., Rychard Elles payeth yerly is.,
Androw Nottyng payeth yerly \s., The Churche wardyns of Semyngton
payethe to the Church yerely at Ester 10s. $d. It., it is Condysented
and Agreed byyep'ishe that John Symmes s 1 :i U kepp ye clocke And
the belles in good order & to have yerely Ss. Phyllyp Chaphyns wages is
yerely \2(t. The rent of the Churche house is yerely to the queue w.^rf.1
1543. — Md. the 26th day Decemb'r and in the 34th yere of the Reign
of Kynge Henry the VHIth, by the grace of God of Inglond, ffraunce, &
Irelond Kynge Defender of the ffaith And in Earth nexte & Immediately
under God of the Churche of Inglond and also of Irelond Supreme
head, A p'fett and a true Inventory taken & made by the consent of the
hole p'ishe of Stipleashton of all & singuler goodes Jewels and Imple-
mentes belonging or beyng w'tin the p'ishe Clinch aforseid, and d'd
into the Custodye of Will'm Stilman & Roberte White beying Churche
wardens as here aft' foloweth.
Inpr'mis one Chalis p'cell gilte contcyning 18 ounces. It'm, 1 pere
ofvestmentes of blewe velvet and a Cope wt. Albes and ames to the
same. It'm, of blewe Sattyn of Bridggis, \ Cope. It'm, of Red velvet, one
pere ofvestmentes. It'm, of Red velvet, one Cope wt. albe & ames to
the same. It'm of grene velvet, oone pere of vestmentes wt. albe & ames
to the same. It'm, of white damask, 1 pere ol vestmentes wt. albe &
ames. It'm, of black silke, oon hole sule of vestmentes wt. a C«>pe.
It'm, of sade white sylke. one hole sute ofvestmentes wt. a Cope. I tin.
of purpull Silke, one Cope. It'm, of grene Silke, oon Cope. It'm, 3 Cor-
poras Casis of Silke, and 1 of them embrodered wt. gold. It'm, of grene
sylk, a Sepulchere Clothe. It'm, of Sad silke, 1 aulter Clothe. It'm for
Corporacis, 6 Kercheifes. It'm, in the Tower there be 5 grctt belles &
one smale bell & A cloccke.
Md. that we the forscid Churche wardens, Will'm Stilman and
Robert White, have made of the devocion ot the hole perishe in Kepyug
of ales for the Churche use and other dueties p'teynynge therunto which
we Receyvid for the same yere, £& ll
1 This Inventory and the Memoranda which follow arc written ..n the
flyleaf. As they belong to the years loS\ and 15^2 respectively, they are
out of place.
2 The Mauorial quit rent.
c c
37o
Md. that we the said Churche wardens, Wiirra Stilman and R
White, have paid oute of the forsaide sume for Rcp'acions aboute the
Churche at Visitacions and for the Archedeacon's duetie, wt. other costs
& charges that we have been at for this same year, £$ 12s. <, i.
Md. in the feast of Seynte Steph'n and In the 34th yere of the Reign
of Kyng Henry the Vlllth, by the grace of God of Inglond, ffraunce, tV
Irelond, Kyng Defender of the ffaith, and in erth of the Churche of
Inglond & also of Irelond, supreme hed. The Churche Rekonyng made
by Will'm Stillman and Robert White, Churche wardens, for all man' ot
payments & Receyts belongyng unto the Churche of Stipleashton all
man' payments Alowed and so Remayneth.
Except for the alteration in the names of t he church-
wardens, the same form of presenting the accounts is used
for the next eight years, but the receipts and disbursements
have not been entered. The period covered is from 1544 to
1 55 1 inclusive, and embraces the last four years of Henry
VIII and the first four of Edward VI. The names of tin
churchwardens are as follows : —
1544. William Stilman & Anthony Martyn.
1545. Rycherd Alyn & Anthony Martyn.
1546. Roger Wenslo ec Rycherd Alyn.
1547. Roger Wenslp & Harry Bui
1548. Marry Burgis ec Waiter Markes.
"1549. Walter Markes o: William Swetyng.
1550. William Swettyng & John Lucas.
1 55 1 . William Boucher & John Lucas.
After this last date four pages were left blank, and there-
are no entries whatever for the next six years (1552-57),
being the last two of Edward VI and the first four of Mary.
1609. l— An Inventorie of all and singular goods & Implements be-
longing to ye parish church of Steeple Ashton. Taken ye 26 day <-f
December, in ye seaventh yeare of the raigne of our BOVeraigne Lord
King James of England, Scotland, Fraunce, and Ireland, king defender
of ye faith, &c, and in ye yeare of ye Lord, 1609.
George Webbe being vicar, Steven Crooke, Anthonic Martin
churchwardens for that yeare.
Inprimis, for ye Communion Table, a carpet and Table death.
Item, a silver cup or chalice. Item, a peuter flagon. Item, for ye pulpit,
a cushion of blew sikl. Item, a surplice. Item, a great Bible with the
Books of common praier and the Book of Cannons. Item, the IWO
1 This Inventory la out of place.
37'
volumes of ye Acts and monuments of the Church. Item, Erasmus
Paraphrase uppon ye Evangelists.1 Item, in the Tower, five greater
Bells and a little sance Bel. Item, certaine old pipes and fragmenl I oi
the Organs— sold 1620 for 14s. 6rf.
, ;i Belonging to ye Librarie of ye vicaradge of Steeple Ashton afore-
said.
The five Tomes of Chrysostomcs works2 given to that Libiarie by
Mr. Ellice Wright,3 Vicar, sometymes there about the beginning oi ye
raigne of Queene Elizabeth of famous memorie.
■55,8. — A°. Phi' & Marie quinto & sexto. Md. this be the Receytta
of Robe'rte Whatle and John Whatle, being churche wardens, have
Receyvid and made this p'sent yere : — Inp'mis reccyvid of the church
stoockc, 10s. Item made clerely, of the churche ale, 37*. 2d, It., re ol
Will'm Bull for rent, 6d. It., re' of Jone Morrys for rent, iSd. It., re* of
John lies for rente, 20^. It., re' for smoke ffarthings, ~s. yt. It.,
re' of Jone Morrys for rent, iSr/. It., re' of Will'm Bull rent, <>/. It.,
re' of John lies for rent, 2o7. It., re' of John lies for rent, 2orf. It., re'
of John lies for rent, 20'/. It., re' of Jone Morrys i"; rent, iSd. It.. i<-'
of Jone Morrys for rent, \$>d. It., re' of John Swayne, zs. qd. It ., made
of Whitsontyde Ale clerly, 25.?. 4*/— Sum', £.\ \y, $d.
These be the payments of Roberto Whatle and John Whatle,
churche wardens, which they have pd. this present yeare:- -In prim is, for
Rep'acions davvbyng and p'ging of the Church hou t6s.&d, \: . p'd
for making of the high alter, 2.?. Sd. It., p'd to John Wales for making
of 1 Sege,4 2s. It., p'd for wyare for mendyng the clocke, \d. It., for
the.paschall and the Font Taper, 35. It., p d to John Syms for Tymb'r,
is. Sd. It., p'd to Drap' for making cicne of the frame, 2</. It., p'd for
2 cruetts, 12'/. It., pel for mending of the Sencers, Sd. It., p'd to
Thomas Smyth for nayles, 6,d. It., p'd for mendyng of the clocke, 4-$-. Cd.
It., paide ffor mendyng of the clocke, 6d.-~ Sum', 24s. Cd. Inn, paide to
John Syms for Kyping of the bells, \2<L It., paide for dressing ol one
Sege, Cd. It., p'd to Alyce Godwyne for mending of a surples, 2.1. It.,
p'd to Thomas Carpynt' for mending of ye church hon.se, qi. It., p'd to
Rendell for making clone the church leaddes, 4Y. It . p'd for the
churche house rent, lid. It., p'd to Umfry for mendyng of the belis, zs.
It., p'd to ye same Umfry for mendyng the church Raylls, i2d. It., pd
for 1 dusscn of Rede, lid. It., p'd for mendyng of the churche house
1 Basil, 1512, bears the title " Dcs. Erasrni Hot. in Xovvm Tcstamcntvm
Annotationes, etc."
a Basil, 1530. The first of these volumes bears the following Ir.rnds on
their inside cover: " H:ec 5 vol. op. Chrysost. Latin. 1 relit, p'tlneol td
Domuin Vicariatus de Steeple-Ashton, Wilts." " Given to the Vicarage oi
Steeple Ashton for ever by Ellis Wright, Vicar, about the year 15G8.'*
3 Eliseus Wright, vicar 1538-1509.
1 Sege = a scat.
C C 2
372
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
w'th the same Rede,1 Sd. It., p'd to Markcs ofWestbury for makyng
the frame for owre bells, 9^. It., paid for his table, 2s. It., p'd for
Brasse & the yotyng2 of the same, 4.C 6d. It., p'd to John Hales for
mending Bochers wives sege, j,d. It., in expences at the Visitacion at
Kevill, Sd. It., in expences at the Visitacion at Trobbridge, &/. It,
paid to John Wales for sawing uf tymb'r, <\d. — Sum', 295. ^d.
Md. in the feast of saynte Stephen, the yere of o'r Lorde God, as ys
above mencyoned, and in the 5th and 6th yea re of Kyng Fhyllypp and
Quene Mary, the Church Reconyng made by Robert Whatle and John
Whatle for all mann' of ReceyptS and payments feelonpftn^ \x\(\.(Y the
churche of Stypleashton, al maim' of payments allowed and so Re-
mayneth clerely in the hands of John Whatley and John Sylv'thomc,
churche wardens for this yere, 20s. $d., and Semyngton duty ys unpaid
which ys the some of 10s.
1559 and in the fyrst yere of Quene Elyzabeth. Stypleaysheton.
Md. this be the Receytts that John Whatle and John Sylv'thorn, beying
Churche wardens, have Receyvyd and made this yeare : — Inp'mis, Re-
ceyvid of the Church stoocke, 20.?. It'm, made of the Churche Ale,
355. It'm, receyvyd of Kychcrd Sylv'thomc, (><. s/. It'm. receyvyd of
mystresse Paysshen, \os. It., re' of John lies for Rent. 20/. It'm, re'
of John ffloure for Rent, \Sd. It'm, re' of John ffloure for Rent, iSd.
It., re' of John ffloure for Rent, \Sd. It'm, re' ol Smoke (farthings,
6s. nd. It'm, re' at the deathe of Thomas Jamys, \2d. It., re' at the
death of John Talman, Sd. It., re' of John VVyllyams, \2<t. It., re' ol
yong Walt' Markes's wiff, 6s. Sd. It., re' of Thomas Long for Semyng-
ton, 10s. It., re' of John Whatle for 1 acre of grasse, 4J. — Sum', Ss. 4,<t.
These be the paymeutes of John Watle and John Sylv'thorn,
churche wardens, whiche they have paidc this p'sent yere :— Inp'mis,
paid unto John Halys for sawing of hordes flbr the Churche house end,
35. i\d. It'm, p'd for mendyng of the clockc to Henry Smyth, zs. yt.
It., p'd to John Syms for kepyng of the bells. 12 i. It., p'd to Phyllypp
Chafyn for beryng a cope to Froume, Sd. It'm. p'd to Thomas Smyth
for making of a twyste for3 the gate ncxte unto Anthony Martyn, 5 /.
It, in expences at the Visitasion at Edynton, $d. It., p'd for 1 lood ol
thomes to make the hedge of the church house carden and for fylhng
and caryage of the same, 2s. It., p'd for the makyng of the forsaid
hedge, Sd. It., p'd to the plu'mcr ffor mendyng and diessyng the leddes
and pypes aboute the Churche, \Cs. Sd, It'm, p'd (ora man's labor in
helpyng the plummer, \2>t. It., p'd Thorn's Smith lor makyng Iron
tacks to sett up the pypes of lead about the Churche, izd. It., p'd for
making of 0* bill at the visitacion att the Vises, 22</. It., paid lor the
1 i.e., Thatching.
2 "Yotyng" = probably " getting", or "goting",a* a Wilt>hircm.in nig1
call it.
3 Twyste = a wooden girder.
Steeple Ashton Churchwardens* Accounts,
373
delyveraunce of the forsaid bill, 6d. It'm, in expences the same tyme
at the Devisez, \$d. It., p'd for Walt. Markes & WiH'am Boucher in
horse meate, 2d. It., in expences the seconde tyme at the Vises, \2d.
It., p'd at Vise & tyme to Mr. Hull tor one p'tc of writing indented,
25. 6d. It., in expences there the same tyme, i2d. It., in expel i es
before we went to the Vise in the morning, yl. It., in expences at the
Visitacion at Kevill, Sd. It., paid at the Visitacion at Lavinton for the
Church Duty, 2S. It., in expences there the same tyme, <\d. It'm, paid
for the Church house rent, 2s. $</. It., paid for mending of the clocke,
2od. It., in expences the same tyme, qd. It., for hording of the churchc
house end, iSd. It., paid for two hundred of nayies, 14^. It., p'd for
making of 1 baudrick' lether & thongs, Sd. It., p'd to J'>hn Myles for
wax & makyng of ta[)ers, 6s. yL It., p'd to Robert Fermer for white
lether, qd. It., p'd for sope to wasshe the churche clothes, \2d. It., for
paving of the Churche, 45. \d.. It., p'd for caryage ol sand, 6d. It., p'd
for pulling downe of the Roode, qd. It'm, p'd for a Kaye lor the
Churche house dore, yf. It., paid for t he making of the Church yard
gate, and for meate and drinke, 4?. It., p'd for digging of holes of the
Church gate, 2d. It'm, p'd for nayies and twistes for the same gate, g i.
It., p'd for one busshell of lyme, ^d. It., paid for m iking of one other
ga' at the Churche house end, and for meate and drinke, 4s. It., p'd for
pulling downe of the Alter, Sd. It., to the sompner'i at the Vises and
for expensis, Sd. It'm, paide for the Comm'yon, 6s. Sd. It., paid for
makyng of the Church forme and one scatc, 4c/. It'm, paid for 4 men's
chargis at the Devises, 4*. --Sum', £.\ y.
Md. in the feast of Saynte Stephan the yeare as is above said the
Churche Reconyng made by John Whatle and John Syiv'thorne for ail
man' of Receytts and payments belonging unto the Churche of Stiple-
aishton, all manner of payments allowed and so Rcmayneth in the hands
of John Syiv'thorne and Roberte Whit, Church wardens for this yere,
35*. ^d.
1560.- A°. Regni Elizabeth Regine Sccondo. Stypleassheton. -
These be the paymentes of Roberte White and John Sylverthorne,
Churche wardens, which they have payde for thys present yeare :-In-
primis, paid to Will'm Ffellpes for bringing home or byble, i6d. It'm,
payd to the clerke3 for wryting o* Churche Rcconynges, \2d. It'm,
paide for whyte lether, 4//. It'm, paide for one oxe poole, l6d. It'm,
payde for halffe a horse hydc, 35. 4^. It'm. paide Belingame f«>r
Rep'acions of the clocke, 6d. It'm, paide to the said Belingame for
hanging of 4 belles, 3.?. It'm, payd for nayies to nayle bordes about the
Churche howse, 2d.
1 Baudrick = Thong for the clapper of a bell.
2 Scrnpner = Apparitor.
3 First mention of a Vestry Clerk in Steeple A
'374 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Md. in the fest of scant Stevuiti, the ycre as ys above wryttyn, llic
Church Rectinnyg made by Robert Whyte and John Sylv'thorne, for all
man' of Rcceyts and payments, and all thyngs clcrcly dyschargyt and
peyd, and so there Remeynys clerely to the Churclie, £5 5V. 1
1561. — Md. in the fest of Saynt Steven, in the ycre of our Lorde
God, A. 1561, mad by the handes of Robert Whyte and John Long,
Churchmen, & bom all cost & charges— £$ \ the wych fife pound was
delyvared into the hands of John Long and John Sladi , (
1562. — Md. in the ffest of Saynt Steven in the yen- of ourc Lord
God, A. 1562, the Chinch Reconyng, mad by John Long & John Shade,
of all Resctes cc paymyntes clerly dyeharged and so remaynyth clerly to
the Church, \os. A note of Suche thynges that is devve to the ch'che &
is to paye1 :— It'm, ffor the lying of Mistris Moonne in the Church, 6s. Sii.
It'm, for the lying of Mr. Pallin's wyffe in the Church. Gs. $</. It'm, ffor
the lying of Mr. Antony Steyllman in the Church, 6s. &/. It'm, Mar-
gerett Steyllman gave to the curche, /\d. Item, thai c is a olde bybell
& it is in the handes of the Vycar.
1 569. — A vestry 'l holdcn in Stepleasheton December 26th, p'sent
Richard Mathewe, vicar, Will'm White, George White, Will'm Markcs,
Rychard Allen. Chnrche wardens— J hon Croke, J lion Silv'thorne,
Thir rekening in mony ys £S iSs. '^d. Of other detes- Jhon Grenehil
owethe to ye Churclie 40*., Roger Martin \os., Roger Martin y^s. i,d.%
James Langffield ioj., Will'm Selfe 205. Mr. Stileman for Mrs. Gatrell
6s. Sd., Robert White for ye burial 6s. Sd., item, in the saide Robert his
will , John Paine for his will 12^/., Will'm Stileman for ye Churchc
ale , Item, Richard Spenser for Rent 5*. 4^.— Some total of mony &
detes: Given up, ^15 10s. yd.; paid of this in charges, £11 os. \\d.\
remains, £4 gs. Sd.; & of this ye Churchc owethe unto Jhon Croke
above yt is laid out, £2. New Churchc wardens— Jhon Silv'thorne
aforenamed, Roger Martin.
1570. — A vestrie holden ye 26th day of Mcrche. Jhon Silv'thorne,
Roger Martin, Church wardens. Cuustable, Will'm Markcs.
West Asheton. — Old, Jhon Stone, Jhon Margor'n. waymcn of
West Asheton do geve up ther accownts. New, Richard Will'ms,
Richard Silv'thorne, waimen. Old, Jhon B urges, William Whatley, i"i
ye pore. New, Henry Botcher, Jhon Sweting, for ye pore.
Steeple Ashton.— Old, Robert Longe, Will'm Fort, waymcn. New,
Jhon Vinsent, Jhonne Hailes, waymcn. Collectors for ye pore ol
Seple Asheton, Wal'r Hancocke, Will'm White.
1 The lower two-thirds of the page on which this note occurs has been
cut off. The back of it is blank. There are no entries for thcycar> 1 :.'*:'.-•;*>
inclusive.
2 Here first called a "Vestry ". Afterwards it is always so called.
Steeple Ashton Churchwarden^ Accounts.
375
Henton.— Old, Will'm Tucker, Thomas Collel, pore. Now, Edithe
Smith, James Lanfeld, waymcn. Old, Thomas Tama', J lion Bolwel,
vvaymen. New, Jhon Svvaine, Jhon Saiward, pore.
1570.— A vestry, October 15th, present Richard Allen, Jhon Long,
Jhon Ballard, George Whit, Jhon Tanton, Phillip Hollowey, Will'm
Longe, Jhon Markes, Will'm Palmer, Cristv' Poell, Robert Longe, Jhon
Wolfre, etc. Churche wardens, Roger Martin, Jhon Silv*t home ye y
Richard Matthewe, Vicar.
Givethe ffor ye pore: — Richaid Matthewe givethe monethely to ye
pore 4^., Mr. Stileman $d., George White 2d., Jhon Ballerd 2,/., Will'm
Long monethely 2d., Jhon Markes 2d., Will'm Markes 2d., Jhon Grene-
hill 2d., Roger Martin 2d., Wat'r Markes 2d., Cristo'r Poell 2d.. Jhon
Croke 2d., Jhon Wolfrey id., Jhon Watley id., Drinkwater 2d., Robert
Long \d., Will'm Stileman id. — Will'm White, Wal'r Hancocke, col-
lectors. Robert Rowbotoni id., Richaid Hay ward .V., Richard Spencer
id., Jhon Roberts id., Widdow Payne id., Will'm Palmer, Est Towne, 2d.
1570. — A vestry, December 26th, p'sent Richard Allen, George
White, Jhon Longe, Richard Matthewe, Vicar, etc Jhon Silv'thorne,
Roger Martin, Churche wardens, do make their accounts :- Reseved *>l
Will'm Selfe, 20s. Re' of Edithe Paine, i2d. Re' lor smoke farthinges,
6s. Sd. Re' of Androw Notting, i2$d. So yt all therAccownts Komethe
unto w't yt wch ys here named & not named, £S i8f. oV/; w't 6s. %d.
What tliei laid out, /"4 \\s. 9 7. So yt Ther Remaines due to ye
Churche, . New Churche wardens, Roger Martin, Richard Allen,
Will'm Silv'thorne, 6s. Sd. Item, it ys Agreed yt ther shal be yerely
paid for kepyng ye clocke, 3^. ^d.
1571. — A vestry, Aprel 22nd, p'sent Richard Matthew, Vicar, George
Whit, Jhon Long, Jhon Tanton, Phillip Holloway, etc. Churche
wardens, Richard Allen, Rog'r Martin. Newe Weymen for Asheton,
George Drinkewat'r, Will'm Longe. New waymc', West Asheton, Jhon
Long, Phillip Holloway. Collectors. Jhon Tanton, Roberd Martin.
Weamen for Henton, Nicholas Hancocke, Thomas Taman. Collectors,
Henry Knave, Amre Taman. Some of ye Rekening laid out, 33V. yd.
So yt ther Remaineth in the churche wardens handes. £6 xos. -}d.
1571. — A rekening made Dcsemb'r 26th. in ye 14th ycare of or sover-
ayngne queue Elizabethe. Richard Allen, Roger Martyn, Church
wardens. Jhon Markes wt Richard Allen. Newemen- ; paid al the some
of £\2 \os. saving yt wch Remaynethc in ther handes. wch ys £5 \:s.
J572 .— A vestrye holdcn Dcsemb'r 26th, St. Stevens day. Richard
Allen, Jhon Markes, oldc churche wardens; new, Jhon Markes. Will'm
Palm'r. Re' £5 17s. ; Re' 455. ; Re' 54*. \ u/. ; Re' 57*. 4^- J R«' '3f- Ad.
Due yt Remayues of mens good wil to ye beP beside $.\s. lid. Re"
1 Newemen = New Churchwardens.
3 ?A new bell.
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
\os. $d.\ Re' 9*. Sri.; Re' 5?. %d. ; Re' in Rentes 2S. ; Re' in Rentes 3*.--
Some, /13 os. \2d. P'dments ye ful some, £9 15*. 1 id. Romayns good
to ye Churche, ^3 $s. id. ; Rebate of this, 26^. S</. Remains fully to ye
churche in Jhon Markes handes al Rekenings dischard, 48^. $d. Will'm
Silv'thorne owethe 6s. 8c/.1
1573.— A vestry hollden Aprell 10th. Annis White, Mother Smewe,
Jone Ames, provition for ye pore. Newe waymen for Steple Asheton—
Thomas Grenehil, Androw Notton. West Asheton — Trustrum Flower,
Jhon Baylye. Henton— Wat'r Stileman, Jhon Tucker.
1573.— A vestreye liolden December 26th, St. Stevens dayc, p'scnt
Richard Matthcwe, vicar, Will'm lJalmer, churche warden, Mr. Stylman,
George White, Richard Allen, J lion Longe, etc. Jhonnc Markes, Will'm
Palmer, olde churche wardens ; Will'm Palm'r. Wat'r Markes, Roger
Martin,2 new church wardens. Jhon Grenehil, Phillip Hollowaye, olde
collectors; Thomas Gre'hill, Jhon Silverthorne, newe collectors. Roger
Martin, Richard Will'ms,3 dystributcrs— it Apearethe yt ye clnirchc ys
inddetted to Will'm Palmer, £3 3?. id. ; of ye w'ch Jhonn Markes
owethe 30s. id. ; rcmaynes to gather of ye bell mony, 20*. yi ; re* more
by Roger Martyn geve by Phillip Hulyn, $s.A Pd. to Will'm Palmcn
handes.
(To be continued.)
QUAKERISM IN WILTSHIRE.
BURIALS.
{Continued from p. 308.)
1813-10-10.— At Melksham, Katharine Jefferys, of Melksham,
co. of Wilis, widow of Edward Jefferys, age
82.
181 7-5-28. —At Melksham, Elizabeth Jefferys, of Melksham,
co. of Wilts, dau. of Thomas and Martha
Jefferys, age 19.
1827-12-9.— At Melksham, Mary (AMES, of Melksham, co. of
Wilts, age .17. N.M.
1 A pen has been drawn through these accounts except the last item
but one, which gives t lie amount due to the church.
2 This name is scratched out.
3 In addition to the office of collector \vc here find an extra oilier, viz.,
that of "Distributor" of relief to the poor.
* This last item is scratched out.
Quakerism in Wiltshire .
377
K.
*i 704-6-1 7. —Ann Kellaway, of Newton, wife of Joseph
Kellaway.
*i 707-2-1 7. —[Buried] at Bromham, Lucy Knight, of Melksham
ph., dau. of Barth. and Elizth. Knight
*i 707-3-5. — [Buried] at Bromham, Elizabeth Knight, of Melk-
sham ph., wife of Bartholomew Knight.
*i707-io-23. — [Buried] at Bromham, Bartholomew Knight, of
Melksham ph.
*i 7 1 3-4 — . — Ann Knight, wife of Peter Knight.
1718-2-19. — At Melksham, Ann Knight, wife of Peter Knight.
*i 723-7- 1 4. — Sarah King, of Lavington Monthly Meeting.
*i725~2-2. — Abigail Knot, of Corsham, widow.
i739[4o]-io — . — At Bromham, John Kinton.
1754- 6-5. — At Pickwick, Ann Keck, of Pickwick, widow.
1755- 2-1S. — At Slauterford, Betty Kingsbury, dau. of Solomon
liar wood.
1760-9-5. — At Bromham, Christian King, of Bromham.
1765 . — Ann Kent, of Eaton, wife of Thomas Kent.
1 777- 6-1 7. — At Bromham, George King, died in Broomham ph.,
son of Nickles and Christian King, age 62.
* 1 7 7 7~7 — • — [Buried] at Bromham, George King, died at
Netherstreet in Bromham ph., an elderly
man.
1778 . — At Bromham, Tho*. King, son of Nicklas and
Christian King, age 68.
1829-2-25. — At Melksham, James Knee, of Trowbridge, co. of
Wilts, baker, age 67.
L.
1703-4-4. — At Comerwell, John Lea, of Southwark in London,
died at Bradford, son of Judith Lea.
*i 7 14-S-1 S. — Elizabctli Lansdel, of Sarum, wife of James
Lansdel.
1 7 18-3-26. — At Bukly, Henry Larence, of Warminster.
*i 7 1 9-2-3. — Alee Lea, of Cain, wife of Robert Lea.
*i 7 19-2-3. — Else Lea, of Cain, wife of Robert Lea.
*i72i/2-i-2. — Elizabeth LANE, of Kington.
*i723~2[3]-3i. — Robert Laurence, son of Antho. [Anthony
junr.] and Margret Laurence.
37S
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
1726-9-26. — At Comerwell, Mary Long, of Trowel, ph. of
V Bradford.
*i728-2-6. — Richd. Little, of Corsham.
1729-6-23. — Susanna Lane, wife of William Lane.
1 731- 1 1 -9. — Margret Laurence, of Chippenham.
1 741-3-9. — At Slauterford, Betty Lewis, of Box, wife of
Arthur Lewis.
1741- 10-24. — Anthony Laurence, senr., of Brink worth.
1742- 2-4. — Jane Lea, of Cain, wife of Robert Lea.
1742- 6-22. — At Lea, Margaret Laurence, of Charlton, widow.
1743- 4-5. — At Chippenham, Richard Little, of Chippenham,
son of Richard Little, late of Corsham.
1743-6-5. — At Chippenham, Elizabeth Little, of Chippenham,
widow.
*i 748/9-1 1-22.— [Buried] at Cain, Eliz\ Lodg[e], of Chilvester
Hill, wife of Samuel Lodge, dau. of Israel Noyes.
1754- 10-2. — At Sarum, Jane Lansly, of Sarum, wife of James
La n sly.
1755- 10-22. — At Sarum, James Lansly, of Sarum.
1756- 10-10. — At Pickwick, Mary LITTLE, of Alford, widow.
1 756- 1 2-7. — At Pickwick, Mary Laurence, of Corsham.
1757- 2-1. — At Slaughtcrford, William Lane, of Nettleton.
1801-9-1. — At Melksham, Elizabeth Laurence, of Melksham,
spinster, age 29. N.M.
1812-11-13. — At Calne, Hester Luff, of Calnc, widow, age 71
N.M.
M
1701- 9-2S. — Richard Marsh, of West Kington.
1702- 3-7. — Roger Mattock, of Crockerton.
1702-12-19. — At Comerwell, Jonc Matrevers, of Trowbridge,
wife of James Matrevers.
1706-3-2S. — At Cumbcrwell, Roger Moon, of Shidly, ph. ol
Trowbridge.
* 1 707-1 1-16. — John Mj:kiiti:li>, of Sarum, son of John and
Mary Mcrificld.
*i 710-7-3. — Thomas MOOR, of Sarum Monthly Meeting, son
of John and Rachel Moor.
1720-6-3.— At VVestbury, Jn*. Matrevers, senr., of Westbury.
Queries.
379
1722- 7-2.— At Sarum, Mary Merryfield, of Sarum, wife of
William Merryfield.
1 723- 10-6.— At Westbury, Elizth. Matrevers, of Westbury,
widow of Jn°. Matrevers, senr,
1727- 4-7.— At Melksham, Sarah Matthews, of Melksham.
1728- 6-9. — At Sarum, Jane Merrifu ; d.
*i 728-8-29. — Lconerd Modgridge, of Broomham.
* 1 729-7 - 1 6. — John M A 1 RAVERS.
*I733~1 2-13.— Mary Mathews, wife of Charles Mathews.
Norman \ \ NNEY.
(To be continued.)
<6utrft&
Merriott or Merrit. — I have collected considerable infor-
mation about this family from several counties, including
Wiltshire. I desire to know further about Thoma Merriott,
of Stanlynch, in 141S. Did he leave any descendants ? 1
should like to fill up all gaps between that date and 1550.
Douglas Merritt.
Lcacote, Rhinbeck,
New York.
A DcYizes Coin
(p. 274). — I send you a
drawing of the coin lately
acquired by my brother
and myself. None of the
ordinary coins of Ste-
phen of this type read
'STEFAN VS, but
STIFNE, ST I E F N E,
or some such reading.
Coin of Karoni.nl work, presumably i->*ued
at Devizes in the tunc ol Stephen.
Inscription :—
Obverse— *STEFA<NVSR>
Reverse- ( uEL:ON - VISE
SlHWI i v Fox
38o
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
A Wiltshire Authoress (vol. IV., p. 233). — The "little
town in Wiltshire" where Miss Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger, the
authoress, resided, and was in the daily habit of perusing tin-
pages of open hooks in a boo!: ller's window, was apparently
Devizes. Her father was in iness at Wells, where she-
was born in 177S, but, four ycai > later, lie left for Chatham,
and was made purser to Admiral Lord Keith's ship. lie died
on a voyage to the East Indies in 1796, and in the following
year his widow and daughter, then reduced to very slender
means, left Chatham and settled at Devizes to be near some
relatives — eventually removing, in 1S00, to London.
Miss Benger's literary productions — Memoirs of Mary
Queen of Scots — Anne Boleyu— Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of
Bohemia, daughter of James I—Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton—
and Mr. John Tobin, author of the " Honeymoon", and a
native of Salisbury, were all published in the early part of the
last century. She died in London, in 1827, and in the
following year her collected works, with a memoir by Miss
Aikin, were issued in five small octavo volumes.
Mr. Beckford's copy of the Memoirs of Mary Queen of
Scots, published by Longman, 1S2;, fetched 10s. at the
Fonthill sale. It contained some five pages of manuscript
notes by the author of Vathek— and amongst them the follow-
ing:— 11 1 wish, dear Miss Benger, that your style was a little
less ornate, and your information a. little less inaccurate."
It would be interesting to know who were the Devizes
relatives of Mrs. Benger, mother of the authoress,
Replies.
3S
The Western County Magazine (vol. IV., p. 232).— This
periodical, which was issued in monthly parts, reached at
least four volumes, viz., for the years 1 7 So. 1 787, 1 78s, and 1 789.
Some of its principal contents arc anecdotes, antiquarian
notices, biographies (including that of the celebrated Duchess
of Kingston), dramatic effusions, comic and other essays,
curious facts, hunting songs, jeux d'esprit, innuendos, moral
tales (a lacharmontel), law cases, odes and sonnets, humourous
songs, travels, &c
Thomas South, of Bossington Hall, Hants (p. 326).
There were two families of South living in the district in the
eighteenth and early part of the nineteenth centuries; the
Souths of Donhead St. Andrew and the Souths of Ashmore ;
the latter came, it is said, from Dcptford in Kent. Can these
families be connected with the Souths of Swallowclifie ?
An armorial bookplate, of about 1 7.J0, of a "Thomas
South, Armiger", has the arms of South : Argent, three horse
shoes two and one sable, impaling Cities, on a bend argent,
three ravens proper] the impaled coat, according to Papworth,
being for Dive or Dives count}' Northampton. C !an this
marriage be traced ?
The Rev. Compton South, whose sufferings are described
in Hoare's Modern Wilts, Hundred of Chalke, under Berwick
St. John, of which living he was deprived in 1662, may have
been a descendant of the Swallowclifie family. Towards the end
of his life he seems to have held some preferment at Warmin-
ster, and, when unable any longer, through ill-health, to do
duty there, he retired to Donhead St. Andrew, where he died.
There are gravestone inscriptions to him and his wife at Don-
head St. Andrew. A family of Compton was living at Donhead
St. Andrew for 19 December, 7 James I (1610), Edward Fanner,
of Shaston, Dorset, grocer, gave a bond for £200 to John
Compton, of Donhedd St. Andrew, Wilts, yeoman, Nicholas
Compton, of Shaston, aforesaid, yeoman, and Robert Haskoll,
Wiltsliire Notes and Queries.
of the same place, yeoman. [Stat. Mercht. Bonds City of
New Sarum.]
Possibly Mr. Compton South was christened Compton by
reason of some relationship with them ; perhaps his mother
was a Compton.
Thomas South, who died at Donhead in 1766, seems to
have, been a Land Agent, from advertisements in the Satis
Journal of that period; it is thought that he was employed to
manage the estates of the Earl of Pembroke.
Thomas South, the younger, son of Thomas South, and
Mary, his wife, married 5 November, 1763, at Donhead St.
Andrew, Mrs. Elizabeth Horner (Hoare's lVHtst Hundred of
Dunworth) ; he is believed to have died in 1780, and to have
been the Thomas South who, in 1777, presented to the
Vicarage of Mclcombc Regis (Hutchins' Dorset.)
The Rev. Canon Watson, D.D., in his History of the
Parish of Ashmorc (1890), mentions a family of South.
"Thomas South, of Dcptford, Kent, purchased property at
Ashmorc in 1723, 1725, and 1731. Hutchins' History of
Dorset refers to this Thomas South as of Bossing ton, Wilts"
[? Hants], "lie died in 1 740, being then resident at Cufnclls,
in the Parish of Lyndhurst. In his will, he mentions hi
Thomas, his daughter Anna, and his nephew Thomas South
Newland; he was succeeded by his son Thomas, who, in
1727, married Anne Partington, of Deptford. In 1753 he is
described of St. James, Westminster; he died in 1794, and
left this estate to his son, a third Thomas South, who sold it
in 1801."
• • The authors of the Hundred of Dunworth, Hoare's
Modem Wilts, seem to have been mistaken in the brief state-
ment of the pedigree of South of Swallowcliffc, at p. Oy, and
to have skipped a generation.
"William Sowthc, of Ambrcsbury". is there Stated to
"have married Margery, sister of Thomas Billet, and to have
had issue Thomas, who married Isod, daughter of Anthony
Rogers."
Replies.
3*3
i In Dr. Marshall's Visitation of Wilts (1623), the pedigree
begins with Thomas South, who married Isod Rogers,
.The Register of Statute Merchant Bonds of the City of
New Sarum affords more complete evidence of the pedigree.
William Sowthe, Gentilman and Marchant, was party to
a Bond dated n Henry VIII (1520).
Robert Southe, his son (presumably), was Mayor of
Salisbury 23 Henry VIII (1532), and married a wife whose
Christian name was Joane. In 6 Edward VI (1552), June 1S
Thomas Sowthe, of Falleston, Wilts, generosus, son and heir
of Robert Sowthe, late of New Sarum, generosus, decea >ed,
gave a bond to Thomas Chafyn, of New Sarum, draper.
Thomas Chafyn, Mayor of Salisbury in 1547, married a
South, her Christian name is not stated in 1623 Visitation, and
the bond may refer to some transaction connected with this
marriage.
In 9 Elizabeth, 156s, and 10 Elizabeth, 1569, Joane Southe,
of Falleston, Wilts, relict, was party to two bond-. There
are also these bonds, to which members of the family were
parties, all of Swallowcliffc :—
22 Elizabeth, 1570, Thomas Southe, junior, of Swallow-
clive, oilicrwise Swakely, Wilts, armigi
25 Elizabeth, 1573, Thomas Southe, generosus.
35 Elizabeth, 1592, Thomas Southe, junior.
38 Elizabeth, 1595, Thomas Southe, armiger.
1 James I, 1603, Thomas South, armiger.
12 James 1, 1615, Edward South, armiger.
13 James I, 16 16, Edward South, armiger.
6 Charles I, 1631, Edward South, armiger.
Another Thomas appears in 13 James I, viz., Thomas
South, of New Sarum, grocer, and in 14 James I, hi- widow,
Martha South, of New Sarum, late the wife of Thomas South,
armiger, deceased, and Richard South, generosus, her son and
heir; this Richard is party to two other bomU dale,; respec-
tively 13 May, 4 Charles I, and 19 September, 2 Charles 1 ; in
3^4
Wiltshire Nods <n></ 0;<: > u s.
the former he is described "of Lockerley, in the Parish of
Mottisfont, in the County of S :: mpton, gencrosus ", and
in the latter "of Odiham, in the same County, generosus".
According to Iloare's Modern Wilts " Swallowcliflfe be-
longed, 52 Henry VIII, to Sir Christopher Hales. From the
family of Hales (through that of South) it became vested in
Sir Robert Hyde, whose grandson Robert, of Hatch, 1721, by
will left it to Trustee- in trust for sale." [p. 69, ibid.]
This rather unsatisfactory paragraph, lacking all details,
suggests that the Hales, Souths, and Hydes were related;
apparently Swallowcliflfe was the home of the Souths from
1570 to 1630 or 1640 but the connection with the 1 lydes is not
stated, nor the identity of Sir Robert Hyde, of West Hatch,
disclosed. Sir Robert Hyde, the Judge, who was certainly
not of West Hatch, died without issue. The two pedigrees
of that family in Iloare's Modern Wilis contradict each other.
The pedigree of South would appear to be : —
William=[ \perhaps Margery Biflet.
I
Robert Southe, Mayor of Salisbury 1532 =Joane [
I I I I I
Lady Mar- =Thomas ==Isod, dan. Peter. Eliza- Ann, Dorothy,
gery Paulet, of Anthony — bet h, m. L. —
Rogers. Giles, m. T. Dyer. Alys.
d. of Wm.
Marquess of
Winches t< r.
wid. oi Wm.
Waller.
Gawen.
Thomas, of Swallowcliflfe, described— Martha, d. of Richard GoldstOlt,
as Junr., till 35 Eiiz. 1 of Alderbuiy.
Edward—Catherine, d. of William Walter, of Witnbleton, Surrey.
1
I ' j i i i i ~l
Charles. Thomas Walter. William. Catherine. Mary. Joyce.
Goldston.
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